January 21, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Seattle Times website on January 21, 2010.) SEATTLE, Wash. — Commuters who use Sound Transit’s Northline Sounder train and Amtrak between Seattle and Everett will still need to use bus alternatives Thursday morning due to a...
January 21, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Stephanie Farr appeared on the Philadelphia Daily News website on January 20, 2010.) PHILADELPHIA — An Amtrak police officer has sued the national rail corporation, claiming it’s liable for an incident in which a woman was able to grab...
January 21, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by John D. Boyd appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on January 20, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama is nominating Jeffrey R. Moreland, a former senior attorney with BNSF Railway and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, to...
January 20, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Rocklin and Roseville Today website on January 19, 2010.) ROSEVILLE, Calif. — A Colorado man was arrested last week when a Placer County Sheriff’s K-9 found a large stash of marijuana aboard an Amtrak train in Colfax. Sheriff’s deputies...
January 20, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Reuters circulated the following story by Nick Zieminski on January 20, 2010.) NEW YORK —Anyone who wants to travel by train from the United States’ third-biggest city, Chicago, to Houston must board a bus for part of the journey. Amtrak, the national passenger...
January 19, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Chicago Sun-Times website on January 18, 2010.) LEMONT, Ill. — A nun escaped injury when the Amtrak train struck the car she was driving Monday afternoon in southwest suburban Lemont. Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said Texas Eagle train...
January 18, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Jared Paben appeared on The Bellingham Herald website on January 18, 2010.) BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Ridership numbers for the second daily Amtrak Cascades train to Vancouver, B.C., may be good enough to justify making the service permanent. Between...
January 15, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Jon Hilkevitch appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on January 15, 2010.) CHICAGO — Trying to appeal to airline customers fed up with flight delays, escalating checked-bag fees and cattle-car seating, Amtrak is tooting its own horn at...
January 15, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on January 14, 2010.) In the first quarter of fiscal-year 2010, Amtrak set a ridership record of 7.2 million passengers, up 1.4 percent from the previous record of 7.1 million passengers set in FY2008. The...
January 14, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Michael M. Grynbaum appeared on the New York Times website on January 13, 2010.) NEW YORK — The popularity of Amtrak’s Acela Express with the business elite of the Northeast Corridor might as well have earned the train a nickname: Boardroom on...
