June 16, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(UPI circulated the following on June 14.) CHICAGO — Amtrak has suspended service on two routes between Chicago and the West Coast because of flooding in Iowa and Wisconsin, officials said Saturday. The national rail passenger agency said flooded highways have made...
June 13, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Scott Richardson appeared on the Pantagraph website on June 13.) NORMAL, Ill. — Track repairs in and around Springfield will interrupt Amtrak service on the St. Louis-Chicago corridor for about a week beginning Monday. But, people boarding in...
June 13, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Dave Hodges appeared on the Tallahassee Democrat website on June 13.) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Artist and schoolteacher Vaughan Greene likes to travel and says she would ride Amtrak if the passenger trains came through Tallahassee like they once...
June 13, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the KCRG website on June 13.) CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Flooding in Iowa and Wisconsin is affecting Amtrak service between Chicago and the San Francisco Bay, via Omaha and Denver and between Chicago and Seattle/Portland, via Milwaukee and St....
June 13, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Reuters circulated the following on June 12.) BOSTON — As oil prices surge, many Americans are rediscovering the railroad. Amtrak, America’s struggling passenger railroad, saw record numbers in May when ridership rose 12.3 percent from a year earlier, and...
June 12, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on June 11.) BALTIMORE —Two lawsuits pit Amtrak against a developer in a fight over the use of land under a former parcel post building near Baltimore’s railroad station. The disagreement that led to the lawsuits,...
June 12, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following column by Jane Engle appeared on the Los Angeles Times website on June 11.) LOS ANGELES — Amtrak’s Coast Starlight train, which meanders up the Pacific Coast between Los Angeles and Seattle, has made a big comeback after being sidelined for months by a...
June 12, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on June 11.) NEW LONDON, Conn. — Amtrak says it has rescheduled a bridge replacement project in Connecticut that will disrupt some train service between New York and Boston next week. The replacement of a moveable span of...
June 12, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Raju Chebium and Nicole Gaudiano appeared on the Cherry Hill Courier-Post website on June 11.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Train travelers moved closer to the possibility of a faster trip to New York or Washington with House passage of a bill supporting...
June 12, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Sarah Karush on June 11.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A nearly $15 billion Amtrak bill passed the House today as lawmakers rallied around an alternative for travelers saddled with soaring gas prices. The bipartisan bill,...
