June 5, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following editorial appeared on the Newton Kansan website on June 4.) NEWTON, Kan. — From the Amtrak station in Newton, you can take the Southwest Chief train east to Chicago or Kansas City, or you can hop the train westward to Los Angeles and points in-between....
June 5, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Brad Cooper appeared on The Kansas City Star website on June 4.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It’s not the most reliable way to get around. It’s also not that popular these days. But Amtrak’s rail service between Kansas City and St. Louis is about to get...
June 5, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on June 4.) NEW ORLEANS — Authorities say an Amtrak train collided with a car in Louisiana and killed at least two people just hours after it hit another car in Mississippi. The second accident Wednesday involving the...
June 3, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the WFSB website on June 2.) NEW LONDON, Conn. — Amtrak’s shoreline service to Boston will be suspended for a few days while a bridge over the Thames River is replaced. The plan to replace the 90-year-old bridge that connects New...
June 3, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Ted Jackovics appeared on The Tampa Tribune website on June 3.) TAMPA, Fla. — One year ago, the National Association of Railroad Passengers predicted the average price of gasoline would top $4 a gallon, a forecast that is close to becoming a...
June 2, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines, UP
(The following story by Bill Bishop appeared on The Register-Guard website on May 30.) OAKRIDGE, Ore. — Tourists on Amtrak’s famed Coast Starlight run Thursday peered from their coach windows at the site of the most disruptive landslide to strike the Union Pacific...
June 2, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press distributed the following on May 30.) RUTLAND, Vt. — More Vermonters are riding the state’s two Amtrak passenger trains. But the trains have had a poor record of arriving on time. Officials say that March ridership on the train called the...
May 30, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on May 29.) Amtrak is gearing up to launch a major Northeast Corridor maintenance-of-way program next month. Between June 14 and 17, the national intercity passenger railroad will cancel service between...
May 30, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following editorial appeared on the News Journal website on May 30.) WILMINGTON, Del. — A high-speed train between New York and Washington sounds like an exciting idea. But do we have the required $14 billion to spend on it? And if we did, should we spend it on...
May 30, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Summer Harlow appeared on The News Journal website on May 29.) WILMINGTON, Del. — The French AGV zooms by at 200 mph and China’s Shanghai Maglev eats up the rails at 350 mph — more than double the 125-mph average of the Japanese...
