February 13, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on February 12, 2009.) MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Brewers and Amtrak are teaming up for a road game in Chicago. The first 100 Brewers fans who buy tickets to the Chicago Cubs’ Sept. 17 game at Wrigley Field will get...
February 13, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Eric Florip appeared on The East Oregonian website on February 12, 2009.) PENDLETON, Ore. — The push to bring Amtrak back to Eastern Oregon hasn’t garnered any official announcement yet, but count two more visible Hermiston names on...
February 12, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
Buses will carry passengers part of the between Suisun and Sacramento. By (The following story by Greta Mart appeared on the Martinez NEWS-Gazette on February 12, 2009.) MARTINEZ, Calif. — Starting Monday, some morning and early afternoon Capitol Corridor commuter...
February 12, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Angela Greiling Keane on February 12, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Freight railroads that cause delays for Amtrak passenger trains using their tracks could be fined under new authority for a U.S. rail oversight board, an...
February 11, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Heidi Benson appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle website on February 11, 2009.) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — On his first day of work on a passenger train in 1943, James Smith didn’t get a chance to drink in the landscape on the run from...
February 11, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Evelyn Nieves on February 10, 2009.) OAKLAND, Calif. — In an era when America traveled by train, one of the best jobs an African-American man could land was working as a Pullman porter. It also was one of the...
February 11, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Cathy Woodruff appeared on the Albany Times-Union website on February 11, 2009.) COLONIE, N.Y. — The state Department of Transportation wants to put a dormant plan to lay a second railroad track between Schenectady and Albany back on the...
February 10, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following column by Mary Swift appeared on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer website on February 8, 2009.) SEATTLE — Seattle’s Troy Walker figures he logged a million miles on trains. This week, the 90-year-old Walker is adding more. He and 71-year-old Tom Gray of...
February 9, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Kristin Jackson appeared on the Seattle Times website on February 8, 2009.) SEATTLE — There’s an easy way to avoid delays at the U.S.-Canada border crossing at Blaine, both now and during next year’s Winter Olympics: Take the train...
February 9, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on The Seattle Times website on February 7, 2009.) SEATTLE — It’s been 65 years since Troy Walker got hired as a dining-car waiter on the Santa Fe Railway, but he readily recalls a few things he loved about the job: the steady, clean...
