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Cutbacks take train dining off-track

(The following article by David Mannweiler was posted on the Indianapolis Star website on April 23.) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — In 1937, the Pennsylvania Railroad lost $1 million serving food on its trains. The average meal check was $1.24, James D. Porterfield writes...

Amtrak Cascade train service back on track

(The Bellingham Herald posted the following article on its website on April 20.) BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Amtrak passenger train service from Bellingham to Seattle resumed this morning, two days after a mudslide hit railroad tracks near Everett. BNSF Railway, which...

Amtrak Cascade train service back on track

(The Bellingham Herald posted the following article on its website on April 20.) BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Amtrak passenger train service from Bellingham to Seattle resumed this morning, two days after a mudslide hit railroad tracks near Everett. BNSF Railway, which...

Tickets hot for Portland-Boston passenger train

(The Associated Press circulated the following article on April 20.) PORTLAND, Maine –With gas prices surging upward again, ticket sales are hot for the Portland-to-Boston Downeaster passenger train. Winter is usually a slow season for the Downeaster, but this...

Tickets hot for Portland-Boston passenger train

(The Associated Press circulated the following article on April 20.) PORTLAND, Maine –With gas prices surging upward again, ticket sales are hot for the Portland-to-Boston Downeaster passenger train. Winter is usually a slow season for the Downeaster, but this...

Mudslide disrupts rail riders

(The following article by Scott Pesznecker was posted on the Everett Herald website on April 19.) EVERETT, Wash. — Commuter trains between Everett and Seattle are scheduled to be back on track for Thursday morning’s commute. Sounder and Amtrak trains...

Mudslide disrupts rail riders

(The following article by Scott Pesznecker was posted on the Everett Herald website on April 19.) EVERETT, Wash. — Commuter trains between Everett and Seattle are scheduled to be back on track for Thursday morning’s commute. Sounder and Amtrak trains...

City, Amtrak talk trash

(The following article by Joseph Dee was posted on the Trenton Times website on April 15.) TRENTON, N.J. — Train passengers know when they’re in the city and unfortunately it doesn’t take an announcement to get clued in. All they have to do is look...