October 15, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on October 15.) NEW YORK — Amtrak trains heading to and from upstate will operate out of Grand Central Terminal instead of New York Penn Station for the next two weekends, to accommodate Metro-North Railroad track work....
October 15, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Sacramento Bee website on October 14.) WOODLAND, Calif. — Prosecution and defense lawyers offered very different versions of events the night in April 2007 when an Amtrak train engineer was severely beaten by a group of teenagers in West...
October 14, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following editorial appeared on the Albany Times-Union website on October 14.) ALBANY, N.Y. — Now here’s a quaint thought. Imagine President Bush, leaving Washington and heading back to Texas — by train. Truly, the soon-to-be-former President would be a...
October 14, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Al Kemp appeared on The News Journal website on October 14.) WILMINGTON, Del. — While national Amtrak ridership rose to a record in fiscal 2008, Wilmington’s passenger traffic is in a decline. Nationally, ridership rose to a record...
October 14, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Jon Hilkevitch appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on October 14.) CHICAGO — Amtrak ridership topped 1 million passengers in the last year for the first time in at least three decades on routes between Chicago and Downstate cities, the...
October 14, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Hudson Sangree appeared on the Sacramento Bee website on October 14.) WOODLAND, Calif. — Five young men are scheduled to go on trial today for allegedly participating in a vicious attack on an Amtrak engineer in April 2007. Prosecutors say the...
October 13, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Richard K. De Atley appeared on The Press-Enterprise website on October 12.) RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A class-action lawsuit seeking more than $5 million has been filed against Amtrak by a reservation agent working at the nationwide railroad’s...
October 13, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Ken Stanford appeared at AccessNorthGa.com on October 12.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak is planning a major marketing push for the Crescent, which stops in Gainesville, Toccoa and Atlanta twice a day. The New York-to-New Orleans route will be one...
October 13, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Gretchen Kelly appeared on the Successful Meetings website on October 13.) NEW YORK — After a long, hot summer of skyrocketing fuel prices, airline bankruptcies, flight disruptions and cancellations, business travelers are looking longingly at...
October 13, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Elisa Crouch appeared on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website on October 11.) KIRKWOOD, Mo. — Amtrak ridership in Missouri rose 30 percent over last year, according to figures released Friday, but delays still plague passenger train service...
