April 17, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Lisa Schwarz appeared on the St. Cloud Times website on April 17, 2009.) ST. CLOUD, Minn. — St. Cloud won’t see Amtrak trains until at least next week because of high water in North Dakota. Amtrak’s main and alternate routes along BNSF Railway...
April 17, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on April 16, 2009.) PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon Department of Transportation official says President Barack Obama’s plan for a high-speed rail network could quicken Amtrak Cascades service. Obama on Thursday...
April 17, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Thomas V. Bona appeared on the Rockford Register Star website on April 17, 2009.) ROCKFORD, Ill. — Everyone’s all aboard on a new Amtrak route for northern Illinois. Now someone just has to pay the fare. Illinois Department of Transportation...
April 16, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Mike Berger appeared on the Canton Citizen website on April 16, 2009.) CANTON, Mass. — Two tags of graffiti art on the historic walls of the Canton Viaduct, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, will soon be cleaned by an...
April 15, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Lisa Schwarz appeared on the St. Cloud Times website on April 15, 2009.) ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Eastbound passengers on Amtrak’s Empire Builder service will arrive in St. Cloud by bus this morning after high water in North Dakota interrupted normal...
April 14, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The New York Mets issued the following on April 13, 2009.) FLUSHING, N.Y. — The New York Mets and Amtrak today announced a multi-year marketing and promotional partnership at Citi Field, the Mets’ new world-class home, opening today. As part of the partnership,...
April 14, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on April 13, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak says track work in New Jersey will lead to minor delays for the next five months on the heavily traveled Northeast Corridor. Spokeswoman Karina Romero says concrete ties used...
April 13, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Mead Gruver on April 10, 2009.) CHEYENNE, Wyo. — This city exists because of railroads, but regular commercial passenger trains haven’t rumbled through here in almost a dozen years. That could change....
April 13, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Vik Jolly and Lois Evezich appeared on The Orange County Register website on April 10, 2009.) LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. — A decades-long practice with murky origins of people dropping their drawers to moon passing Amtrak trains that last summer...
April 13, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following Associated Press report appeared on the Seattle Times website on April 10, 2009.) SEATTLE, Wash. — Amtrak will spend about spend $50 million in federal stimulus funds in Washington and Oregon, where more than 2 million passengers traveled aboard Amtrak...
