October 14, 2005 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following editorial was posted on the Albany Times Union website on October 14.) ALBANY, N.Y. — Despite all the denials, the vote Wednesday by Amtrak’s board of directors to carve out the Northeast Corridor into a separate division has all the...
October 14, 2005 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following article by Keith L. Alexander was posted on the Washington Post website on October 14.) WASHINGTON — Amtrak’s board of directors has voted to split the train’s Northeast Corridor service into a separate subsidiary, a move that railroad...
October 14, 2005 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following article by J. Scott Orr was posted on the Newark Star-Ledger website on October 14.) WASHINGTON — A controversial plan to shift control of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor to a new subsidiary came under attack yesterday from New Jersey lawmakers...
October 14, 2005 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following article by Ralph Ranalli was posted on the Boston Globe website on October 14.) BOSTON — A preliminary step toward spinning off Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor train service was touted as a crucial move forward by the rail agency’s...
October 14, 2005 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on October 13.) WASHINGTON — Amtrak’s chairman says splitting off the Northeast Corridor — the most heavily traveled portion of the system — under federal-state management is the only way...
October 13, 2005 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The following article by Hank Schaller was posted on the Oakland Press website on October 13.) OAKLAND, Mich. — Democrats and Republicans in the Michigan House of Representatives joined forces Wednesday to argue for more state and federal funding for public...
October 13, 2005 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following article by Matthew L. Wald was posted on the New York Times website on October 12.) WASHINGTON — The Amtrak board has approved an essential step in the Bush administration plan to break up the railroad, voting to carve out the Northeast Corridor,...
October 12, 2005 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following article by David Heinzmann was posted on the Chicago Tribune website on October 12.) NEW ORLEANS — On the second floor of the shabby Amtrak station, in a cavernous old room with missing ceiling tiles and dingy green paint, a handful of tired but...
October 12, 2005 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following article by Jeff Gammage was posted on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on October 12.) PHILADELPHIA — Two days after the World Trade Center collapsed, Phyllis Berman was standing on the Amtrak platform in North Philadelphia, preparing to go back...
October 12, 2005 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following article on October 12.) WASHINGTON — Foreign and US companies will pay the government $24.75 million to settle allegations they inflated claims on Amtrak projects to electrify part of the Northeast Corridor, the...
