March 25, 2008 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Sharon Dunten appeared on the Hattiesburg American on March 25.) JACKSON, Miss. — The Church Road railroad crossing on Eastabuchie Road in southern Jones County will be closed today following two separate car-train accidents Monday that led to...
March 24, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following by Dave Demerjian appeared at Wired.com on March 21.) BOSTON — Looking for a bit of good Amtrak news? Look no further than Boston. Last year, Amtrak’s high-speed Acela Express train carried a record 593,000 passengers from Boston to New York. An...
March 24, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Brad Cooper and Robert A. Cronkleton appeared on The Kansas City Star website on March 22.) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Support is building across Kansas for new train service that would connect Kansas City to the Dallas area. About 10 cities, including...
March 24, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Scott Rothschild appeared on the Lawrence Journal-World website on March 21.) TOPEKA, Kan. — Passengers could board a train in Lawrence and go to Fort Worth under a proposal that officials said Thursday will be studied. The $150,000 to $200,000...
March 24, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Mike Monson appeared on the News-Gazette website on March 23.) CHICAGO — Ehab Samy, 22, was sitting in the lobby on the second floor at Illinois Terminal in downtown Champaign recently, waiting for a late-morning Amtrak train to Chicago. A...
March 24, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines, Railroad Security
(The following report appeared at WJZ.com on March 20.) WILMINGTON, Del. — Amtrak passenger trains cover a lot of miles, and keeping them covered for security reasons is creating a new tactic. Alex DeMetrick reports the first mobile security team was unveiled in...
March 24, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Terri Sanginiti appeared on The News Journal website on March 21.) WILMINGTON, Del. — Terry O’Connor was rushing to catch a train Thursday morning when he was selected at random by Amtrak police to have his carry-on bag screened for...
March 20, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The American Passenger Rail Heritage Foundation issued the following on March 17.) LA PLATA, Mo. — Chris Guenzler will be the first regular passenger documented to have ever traveled 1,000,000 miles over all the routes in the Amtrak system. This record event will...
March 18, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Hartford Courant website on March 17.) WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. — Amtrak planned to resume its normal train schedule between Hartford and Springfield Tuesday morning after a derailment forced service to be suspended Monday. The train was...
March 18, 2008 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared at WRIC.com on March 17.) RICHMOND, Va. — Reports of a bomb on an Amtrak train in Emporia forced hundreds of people onboard to evacuate. A number of streets were shut down overnight around where the Amtrak train stopped in the middle of town....
