December 6, 2007 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Jon Hilkevitch appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on December 4.) CHICAGO — The Amtrak engineer whose speeding train slammed into a stopped freight train Friday in Chicago may have been confused about how fast to proceed after passing a...
December 5, 2007 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following report from Chronicle News Service appeared at Mlive.com on December 4.) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Longtime Amtrak engineers say they cannot understand why the Pere Marquette was speeding in a restricted zone when it crashed into a freight train, injuring...
December 5, 2007 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Brent Hunsberger appeared on The Oregonian website on December 4.) PORTLAND, Ore. — The major rail route between Portland and Seattle remained closed for a second day Tuesday and likely won’t reopen until Wednesday evening. Burlington...
December 5, 2007 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following article appeared on the Daily Labor Report website on November 29.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Bush has issued an executive order establishing a presidential emergency board to investigate a collective bargaining dispute between Amtrak and eight...
December 4, 2007 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following report appeared on The Oregonian website on December 3.) PORTLAND, Ore. — Barring new mudslides, Amtrak could resume rail service between Eugene and Vancouver, B.C., sometime Tuesday, an Amtrak spokeswoman said. Two mudslides forced Amtrak to close...
December 4, 2007 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on December 3.) CHICAGO — A Michigan family sued Amtrak and Norfolk Southern on Monday, three days after being injured when a passenger train rammed a freight train sitting on the same track on Chicago’s South Side....
December 4, 2007 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Rosalind Rossi appeared on the Chicago Sun-Times website on December 4.) CHICAGO — An Amtrak engineer who plowed into the rear of a freight train had been fully certified for only about three months when he sped up — despite a signal that...
November 29, 2007 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Passenger Rail Labor Bargaining Coalition, a group of Amtrak labor unions party to the current dispute, issued the following news release on November 28.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following is a statement on behalf of the Passenger Rail Labor Bargaining Coalition...
November 29, 2007 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Angela Greiling Keane on November 28.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — President George W. Bush today blocked a potential Dec. 1 strike by workers on Amtrak, the nation’s passenger railroad. Bush created a presidential...
November 28, 2007 | Amtrak, Headlines
(King Features circulated the following column by Arthur Frommer on November 28.) NEW YORK — I am constantly surprised by the responses to my pleas for support of Amtrak. At a time when we are all so painfully aware of the need to limit the use of oil and reduce...
