July 3, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Chicago Sun-Times website on July 2.) CHICAGO — Normal service has resumed on two of three Amtrak routes between the West Coast and Chicago disrupted by flooding in the Midwest. Although the Amtrak Empire Builder and Southwest Chief are...
July 3, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following editorial appeared on the Sacramento Bee website on July 3.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — With airlines cutting service and gas topping $4 a gallon, ridership on Amtrak is chugging ever upward. A record 25 million passengers traveled on Amtrak trains in fiscal...
July 2, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story appeared on the Springfield News-Leader website on July 2.) SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Passenger train service between Kansas City and St. Louis will improve with the installation of sidings near Jefferson City, according to the Missouri Department of...
July 2, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(UPI issued the following on July 1.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. presidential candidate John McCain may have to answer for his Senate record on funding Amtrak, The Boston Globe said Tuesday. The Arizona Republican and presumptive GOP nominee has consistently opposed...
July 1, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Jessica Damiano appeared on the Newsday website on June 30.) NEW YORK — Train travel. A century ago and a continent away, it was synonymous with luxury. Today, along the Eastern seaboard, that’s not necessarily the case. But what’s...
July 1, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Newsday website on June 30.) NEW LONDON, Conn. — Amtrak has resumed regular service between New York and Boston after completing work on a 90-year-old bridge in Connecticut. Workers installed a new vertical lift span on the Thames River...
July 1, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following column by Derrick Z. Jackson appeared on the Boston Globe website on July 1.) BOSTON — Train travel is finally becoming a third rail of politics. The first one to fry over it might be John McCain. For years, McCain, in the comfort of cheap gasoline for...
June 30, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on June 26.) CHICAGO — Amtrak says it’s restoring service along its Chicago-to-Los Angeles route that was suspended because of flooding in the Midwest. The rail company suspended service between Kansas City and...
June 30, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Bill Lindelof appeared on the Sacramento Bee website on June 28.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Trains traveling between Sacramento and the Bay Area should be a bit more on time after Sunday with the completion of track work on the Capitol Corridor...
June 30, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Kansas City Star website on June 27.) CHICAGO — Missouri flooding has forced Amtrak to suspend service on the Southwest Chief between Kansas City and Chicago. Amtrak will be substituting buses for trains along that entire stretch because...
