October 26, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Walter Alarkon appeared on The Hill website on October 25, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A push in Congress for broader gun rights is threatening to derail Amtrak and stall a transportation spending bill. Gun-rights advocates in Congress are...
October 26, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Doug Irving appeared on The Orange County Register website on October 23, 2009.) ORANGE, Calif. — Amtrak engineers would take the controls of the region’s Metrolink trains under a contract now under consideration – replacing a private...
October 26, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Kristen Daum appeared on The Forum website on October 26, 2009.) FARGO, N.D. — Thirty years ago this month, an Amtrak route servicing Minnesota and southern North Dakota was shut down. Now, a new government study raises the possibility of...
October 23, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Richard Werst appeared on the Clark Fork Chronicle website on October 22, 2009.) SUPERIOR, Mont. — An Amtrak report that the Hiawatha passenger rail route would cost $1 billion and lose $30 million each year “wasn’t what I was...
October 21, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Ron Fonger appeared at Mlive.com on October 21, 2009.) FLINT, Mich. — There have been moments when it wasn’t clear whether Amtrak’s Blue Water passenger train would still be rolling through Flint, Port Huron and Chicago 35 years after the...
October 21, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Mike Faher appeared on The Tribune-Democrat website on October 21, 2009.) JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — For the past five years, only two passenger trains have stopped at Johnstown’s station each day. And in Somerset County, Rockwood has been without...
October 20, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Michael Dresser appeared on the Baltimore Sun website on October 19, 2009.) BALTIMORE, Md. — The news in the Washington Post over the weekend that Virginia Railway Express has decided to dump Amtrak and award a contract to a French firm to...
October 20, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Matthew Santoni appeared on the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review website on October 20, 2009.) PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Amtrak is recommending that another train be added to the sparse service between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, if state and federal...
October 20, 2009 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on October 19, 2009.) NEWARK, N.J. — Thousands of train passengers were stranded between New York and Washington because of Amtrak power problems along the busy Northeast Corridor Monday. Amtrak spokeswoman Karina Romero...
October 19, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Aaron Aupperlee appeared on the Kalamazoo Gazette website on October 16, 2009.) KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The Chicago-bound Blue Water Amtrak train has stopped thousands of times at the Kalamazoo station. People get on. People get off. It rolls away,...
