October 6, 2020 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: PennLive.com, October 5, 2020) HARRISBURG, Pa. — Amtrak and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced today that they have restored some Keystone Service trains between New York and Harrisburg. Full story: www.pennlive.com
October 5, 2020 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 3, 2020) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Longstanding efforts to add a second daily Amtrak train between the Twin Cities and Chicago received a big boost recently when federal funders kicked in nearly $32 million to help see the project...
October 5, 2020 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: Minot Daily News, October 2, 2020) MINOT, N.D. — Amtrak announced it would be happening and soon it will be a reality. The famed Empire Builder passenger train that has long had seven-day service to Minot and other points in the state is about to cut four...
October 1, 2020 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: WEAU, September 30, 2020) EAU CLAIRE, Wisc. — The joint Wisconsin-Minnesota Twin Cities-Milwaukee-Chicago (TCMC) Passenger Rail Project has been selected to receive a $31.8 million federal rail grant. The TCMC project will add an additional daily round-trip...
October 1, 2020 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, September 30, 2020) JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Joe Biden capped a daylong train tour through Ohio and Pennsylvania on Wednesday by reaching back to a core part of his political identity: decades spent taking Amtrak from Washington home to Delaware...
October 1, 2020 | Amtrak, Headlines, Unions
(Source: Progressive Railroading, September 30, 2020) Unionized Amtrak workers, led by rail labor organizations, today will rally in Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles to urge members of Congress to provide emergency funding to Amtrak to prevent...
October 1, 2020 | Amtrak, Headlines, Unions
(Source: International Brotherhood of Teamsters press release, September 30, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — At a rally in front of the U.S. Capitol today, members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), a division of the Teamsters Rail Conference,...
September 30, 2020 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: Associated Press, September 29, 2020) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded Amtrak a $5.6 million grant for track improvements and other work in New Mexico and Colorado along the Southwest Chief passenger train route between...
September 30, 2020 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: Roll Call, September 29, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Democrats are making a last-ditch effort to help the flailing airline industry avert tens of thousands of layoffs on Oct. 1, tucking into their latest COVID-19 aid bill $25 billion to extend payroll...
September 29, 2020 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: Opinion column in the Lincoln Journal Star, September 29, 2020) LINCOLN, Neb. — Amtrak’s new strategy to eliminate the long-distance trains involves a death-by-a-thousand-cuts course of action. This series of steps aims to weaken the trains and...
