May 4, 2007 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Andrew Ryan and John R. Ellement appeared on the Boston Globe website on May 3.) BOSTON — An Amtrak flagman working at a construction site died apparently of a heart attack overnight after a train hit a piece of equipment that was on the wrong...
May 4, 2007 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following report by Jason Kobely appeared on Sacramento’s News10.net website on May 3.) SACRAMENTO — Two more teens were arrested and a 19-year-old is still being sought in connection with a gang-related attack that hospitalized an Amtrak engineer in West...
May 3, 2007 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on May 3.) BOSTON — An Amtrak employee suffered an apparent heart attack and later died after a train struck a piece of construction equipment in Boston this morning. Amtrak spokesman Cliff Cole says the Albany-to-Boston...
May 1, 2007 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on May 1.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak on Tuesday named William H. Campbell, a former assistant secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs, as chief financial officer. Amtrak has been without a CFO since...
April 30, 2007 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Teresa Pham appeared on the California Aggie website on April 27.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On the night of Apr. 16, two Amtrak personnel were brutally attacked by a group of five to seven youths with a fire extinguisher and a bottle. Only...
April 26, 2007 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Raju Chebium of Gannett News Service appeared on the Cherry Hill Courier Post website on April 26.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak legislation sponsored by Sen. Frank Lautenberg won unanimous approval from the Senate Commerce Committee today, but is...
April 25, 2007 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Courtney Dentch and Chris Dolmetsch on April 25.) NEW YORK — Thousands of Amtrak and Metro-North Railroad riders were delayed for as much as an hour this morning after service was temporarily suspended in Connecticut...
April 25, 2007 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Thomas V. Bona appeared on the Rockford Register Star website on April 25.) ROCKFORD, Ill. — Jo Ann Jenkins was in favor of the Amtrak route that went past Davis Junction and the Chicago/Rockford International Airport. Then she saw the numbers...
April 24, 2007 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Vivek Shankar on April 23.) NEW YORK — Amtrak and New Jersey Transit trains passing through New Brunswick, New Jersey, were running behind schedule today because of five brush fires, delaying commuters on their way...
April 23, 2007 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Michael Cabanatuan appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle website on April 20.) SAN FRANCISCO — A teenager accused of assaulting an Amtrak engineer with rocks and bottles in what appears to have been a botched train robbery also belongs to a...
