July 10, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Dow Jones circulated the following on July 9.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate lawmakers Wednesday approved two spending bills allocating significant funding to reflect the impact of the historically high price of crude oil on the U.S. economy. The Financial Services and...
July 8, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following editorial appeared on the Wall Street Journal website on July 7.) NEW YORK — Florida Congressman John Mica has a radical idea: He wants to develop high-speed rail service between New York and Washington, D.C. We know what you’re thinking –...
July 8, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following editorial appeared on the Bloomington Pantagraph website on July 7.) BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — At a time when the state and nation should be encouraging greater use of public transportation, at a time when more people are being forced to use it because of...
July 7, 2008 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Jason Kobely appeared at News10.net on July 6.) DIXON, Calif. — Four passengers were injured and an Amtrak employee was hospitalized after a train bound for Sacramento was struck by a truck Sunday afternoon, an Amtrak spokeswoman said. The...
July 7, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Mark Schultz appeared on the Chapel Hill News website on July 6.) HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — Art Mines knew the train passed by Hillsborough. He heard it each night as he drove to his home just north of town. Woudn’t it be great, he thought, if...
July 7, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Ed Marcum appeared on the Knoxville News website on July 6.) KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Asked to speculate about passenger rail as an alternative for a nation dealing with high transportation costs, Pete Claussen, chairman of Gulf & Ohio Railways...
July 7, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following column by Derrick Z. Jackson appeared on the Boston Globe website on July 5.) BOSTON — Michael Dukakis says he is not itching to be the next transportation secretary, but if Barack Obama wins the White House and needs a bullhorn for high-speed rail...
July 7, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following editorial appeared on the Merced Sun website on July 5.) MERCED, Calif. — A needed bill in Congress would help resolve conflicts with freight carriers over access to rails. With airlines cutting service and gas topping $4 a gallon, ridership on Amtrak...
July 7, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following column by Catherine Watson appeared on The San Francisco Chronicle website on July 6. Ms. Watson is a former travel editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Her newest book is “Home on the Road,” a collection of travel essays.) ABOARD THE...
July 3, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on July 2.) The Missouri legislature recently approved spending $5 million to increase capacity on Amtrak’s Missouri Mules route. The railroad provides two daily round trips across the state on the...
