December 28, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following editorial appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on December 26, 2009.) LOS ANGELES — Q: What’s stranger than wanting to bring firearms aboard trains? A: Language in the law that appears to require passengers to be secured in boxes. Ever since...
December 28, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Jeffrey Leib appeared on The Denver Post website on December 23, 2009.) DENVER, Colo. — A U.S. District Court judge today declined to issue a temporary restraining order that would have forced Amtrak to operate the Rio Grande Scenic Ski Train...
December 28, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following editorial appeared on The Denver Post website on December 27, 2009.) DENVER, Colo. — What a killjoy. On the eve of the resurgent “ski train’s” 70th consecutive season, Amtrak, the annual recipient of freight loads of taxpayer cash,...
December 23, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Jeffrey Leib appeared on The Denver Post website on December 23, 2009.) DENVER — Amtrak said today it does not yet have an agreement with Iowa Pacific Holdings to help operate a new Ski Train service between Denver’s Union Station and...
December 22, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on December 21, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak said its operations on the northeast corridor are almost back to normal following the weekend’s snowstorm. Spokesman Steve Kulm said a handful of trains between...
December 21, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Daniel Machalaba appeared on the Wall Street Journal website on December 19, 2009.) NEW YORK — Claude Scales, a lawyer and blogger in Brooklyn, N.Y., dreams of traveling across the U.S or Canada by train. For now, he’s settling for the...
December 21, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Leah Beth Ward appeared on the Yakima Herald-Republic website on December 18, 2009.) YAKIMA, Wash. — A new study by Amtrak has found that reviving an old route between Chicago and Seattle — including a stop in Yakima — would be...
December 21, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Matt Ryan appeared on The Burlington Free Press website on December 21, 2009.) ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. — Champlain College sophomore Rodney Van Deusen usually flies home to Connecticut, but Sunday morning he decided to ride the rails. Van Deusen,...
December 21, 2009 | Amtrak, BNSF, Headlines
(The following story by Bev Darr appeared on the Hannibal Courier-Post website on December 21, 2009.) HANNIBAL, Mo. — As many travelers were stranded in airports closed by the weekend’s blizzard, hundreds of travelers closer to Hannibal also had an unexpected change...
December 21, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Ken Leiser appeared on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website on December 20, 2009.) ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Amtrak passenger rail service is finally picking up steam across Missouri. Ridership has gradually climbed on the Missouri River Runner linking...
