February 8, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Gretchen Gailey appeared at FoxNews.com on February 7, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — With Washington, DC area airports still closed or having very limited service, travelers across the region have been left stranded after this weekend’s record...
February 8, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Matthew L. Wald appeared on the New York Times website on February 7, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Road crews, power company workers and plain old homeowners with shovels struggled in gleaming sunshine on Sunday to clean up from a weekend of...
February 5, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on The Daily Inter Lake website on February 5, 2010.) KALISPELL, Mont. — Amtrak ridership took a hit last year, with about 10 percent fewer passengers riding the Empire Builder through Montana in 2009. The total number of passengers was 148,019...
February 5, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Amtrak issued the following on February 4, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Due to impending winter weather conditions in Virginia and the Carolinas, most Amtrak service south from Washington, DC has been canceled for Friday, February 5. All southbound Northeast Regional...
February 5, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Angela Greiling Keane on February 4, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak, the U.S. long-distance passenger railroad, said it needs $11 billion in new rail equipment during the next 14 years and is examining ways to fund...
February 4, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Foss Farrar appeared on the Arkansas City Traveler website on February 3, 2010.) TOPEKA, Kan. — Passenger rail proponents today presented a compelling case for bringing Amtrak back into Kansas, a member of the state Senate transportation...
February 2, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines, Railroad Security
(The following appeared on the Star-Ledger website on February 1, 2010.) NEWARK, N.J. — An Elizabeth man who alarmed fellow passengers in Colorado by allegedly talking about terrorist threats on a cell phone faces a felony charge of endangering public transportation....
February 1, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Lansing State Journal website on February 1, 2010.) LANSING, Mich. — According to statistics recently released by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), East Lansing ridership on Amtrak’s Blue Water line hit an all-time high...
February 1, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Nathan Hurst appeared on the Detroit News website on January 29, 2010.) DETROIT — After a disappointment earlier this week, funding for high-speed rail for Michigan is getting back on track, federal railroad officials said Friday. Amtrak, the...
February 1, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(The following story by Matt Williams appeared on the Rockford Register Star website on January 30, 2010.) ROCKFORD, Ill. — It didn’t take long for the state to respond to the news that federal money would not be used for passenger rail in Rockford. During a stop...
