May 19, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Montanette Murphy appeared on the Observer-Dispatch website on May 18, 2009.) ROME, N.Y. — Taberg native and Amtrak President Joseph Boardman urged a crowd of more than 200 on Monday to keep both Rome and Utica at the forefront of talks about...
May 19, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on May 18, 2009.) SANFORD, Fla. — Amtrak is building a new Auto Train station in Florida. The company broke ground for the new $10 million station Monday. It will be in the same location as the current building in...
May 18, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on May 15, 2009.) WILMINGTON, Del. — Vice President Joe Biden likes to use the Amtrak station in Wilmington to extol the virtues of the railroad, but one of his nieces had a less pleasant experience there. Amtrak...
May 18, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Trevor Hughes appeared on The Coloradoan website on May 17, 2009.) FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Passenger rail advocates are pushing to reroute the historic, but defunct, Amtrak Pioneer train service through Fort Collins, Boulder and Longmont. Under...
May 13, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Thomas V. Bona appeared at BusinessRockford.com on May 12, 2009.) ROCKFORD, Ill. — Restoring Amtrak service through Rockford is one of the “top two priorities” of a key Illinois House panel, its chairwoman said Monday. “We’re not going to let a...
May 12, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Jon Hilkevitch appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on May 11, 2009.) CHICAGO — Introducing ultra-fast passenger trains to the Midwest is less important than the need for more frequent service between cities, reliable schedules that beat the...
May 11, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on May 10, 2009.) CASTLETON, Vt. — Amtrak will now stop in Castleton, Vt., for the first time in more than 50 years. The Agency of Transportation is switching the Ethan Allen train’s daily stop between Rutland and...
May 8, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Tim Landis appeared on the State Journal-Register website on May 7, 2009,) SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A plan is in the works to spend $571,500 in downtown tax increment funds to pay most of the cost of restoring Springfield’s Amtrak station. The...
May 8, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following column by Beth Greenfield appeared on the New York Times website on May 8, 2009.) NEW YORK — Every other summer Friday, I board a morning Amtrak Acela Express from Penn Station in New York to Boston, then catch the Bay State Cruise Company’s fast ferry...
May 8, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Karen Travers appeared at ABCnews.com on May 4, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Vice President Biden touted the stimulus bill and defended investment in the nation’s rail system in remarks this morning at the official kick off of the...
