January 5, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Cleon Rickel appeared on the KC Tribune website on January 2.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harold Pearson, Kansas City, remembers when Union Station was the place to be. When it was the crossroads of the nation. When it was the pulsing heart of Kansas...
January 5, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Susannah Rosenblatt appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on December 30.) LAKE FOREST, Calif. — The locomotive of an Amtrak train carrying 200 people from San Diego to Los Angeles caught fire in Lake Forest this afternoon, delaying...
January 5, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on January 4.) BOSTON — Amtrak is planning to increase service from Boston to Washington on Inauguration Day to help those making the trip to see Barack Obama take the oath of office as president. Amtrak isn’t...
January 5, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following column by Ben Shlesinger appeared on the D.C. Tourism Examiner website on December 31.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak has sent out a press release regarding all the increased measures it is taking to ensure a smooth inauguration day. Below is the release...
January 5, 2009 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Ted Jackovics appeared on the Tampa Tribune website on January 4.) TAMPA — Long before Barack Obama and John McCain were nominated to run for president last year, tour group organizers in Europe were eagerly planning all-night, post-U.S....
December 30, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Len Iwanski on December 29.) HELENA, Mont. — Holiday travel for more than 3,000 Amtrak rail passengers was disrupted when 16 rail cars carrying new automobiles derailed over the weekend in northwestern Montana....
December 29, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Ken Leiser appeared on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website on December 28.) ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Five finalists have been selected to name Amtrak’s passenger rail service between St. Louis and Kansas City. Amtrak and the Missouri Department...
December 29, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Michael Tarm on December 23.) CHICAGO — On one of the biggest travel days of the year, hundreds of Amtrak passengers bound for holiday destinations hunkered down in waiting rooms — some for nearly 24 hours — as...
December 29, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Lawrence Journal-World website on December 29.) LAWRENCE, Kan. — Carey Maynard-Moody is no Dr. Emmett Brown, but she does share the confidence of the movie character who realized his time-traveling dreams with the help of a...
December 23, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Dustin Kass appeared on the Tomah Journal website on December 22.) DRESBACH, Minn. — The rail line near Dresbach reopened to train traffic Thursday night, just one day after the section of tracks was the site of a collision between two Canadian...
