June 25, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on June 24.) 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 24, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following editorial appeared on The Florida Times-Union website on June 23.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — For most of its existence, Amtrak was seen as a relic, neither as quick as airplanes nor as flexible as driving a car. But with gasoline at $4 a gallon and air...
June 24, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Terry Britt appeared on the website on June 23.) EDGEWOOD, Texas — An Amtrak official said Thursday it is very unusual for one of its trains to have a double engine failure like the one that occurred Monday afternoon in Edgewood. More than 200...
June 24, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Paul Nussbaum appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on June 23.) PHILADELPHIA — Next to Jim Cade’s auto body shop in West Philadelphia, an Amtrak retaining wall is crumbling into his parking lot. Eight feet away, Amtrak and SEPTA...
June 24, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Matthew L. Wald appeared on the New York Times website on June 23.) NEW YORK — In Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, the railroad’s weakest link — a 90-year-old drawbridge across the Thames River in eastern Connecticut — was scheduled to carry its...
June 23, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Steven Mayer appeared on the Bakersfield Californian website on June 22.) BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — They came from as far away as South Carolina, Arizona and Chicago with one goal in mind: to be among the few who can say they’ve ridden a passenger...
June 23, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Anna Mageras appeared on The Journal News website on June 20.) NEW YORK — Westchester travelers heading to Boston on Amtrak next week will have to take slower, regional inland trains from Tuesday to Friday due to a bridge replacement near New...
June 23, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Stephanie Harris-Smith appeared on the Hope Star website on June 20.) HOPE, Ark. — The Hope Advertising and Tourist Promotion Commission Secretary Paul Henley recently asked the Amtrak train system to make a stop in Hope. “We made a formal...
June 23, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines, Short Line
(The Associated Press circulated the following on June 20.) MADISON, Wisc. — Wisconsin’s severe flooding is taking a toll on railroad service, both freight and passenger, because of washouts and damaged track left by the high water that hit the state this month....
June 23, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Bruce Edwards appeared on the Barre Montpelier Times Argus website on June 22.) MONTPELIER, Vt. — The on-again, off-again, on-again purchase of state-of-the-art railcars for Amtrak’s Vermonter route, remains in limbo. The Douglas...
