July 14, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The San Francisco Chronicle posted the following article by Mark Helm on its website on July 12.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak officials said Friday that they would be forced to terminate all passenger rail service if a House panel is successful in dramatically...
July 14, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Washington Post published the following story by Don Phillips and Stephen Barr on its website on July 12.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A House appropriations subcommittee yesterday approved a fiscal 2004 budget that effectively would shut down Amtrak, slash funds...
July 11, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Jim Abrams on July 11.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak took another jolt in its bumpy ride toward financial solvency Friday when a House panel decided to give it less than one-third of the money the passenger...
July 9, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Philadelphia Inquirer posted the following story by Chris Mondics on its website on July 9.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Every day, Jetta Johnson says she wakes up praying that another business in this tiny prairie town just beneath the snow-capped spires of the...
July 9, 2003 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on July 8.) POMPANO BEACH, Fla. – A 15-year-old boy riding his bicycle across train tracks was struck and killed by an Amtrak train, authorities said. Jonathan Gordon, of Pompano Beach, and an 18-year-old boy...
July 9, 2003 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press distributed the following story on July 8.) NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Service is returning to normal after a Boston-bound Amtrak Acela train struck and killed a man in New Jersey Tuesday morning. An Amtrak spokesman said the engineer on the...
July 7, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Times Picayune posted the following travel column by Tom McDermott on its website on July 6.) NEW ORLEANS — Every summer New Orleans musicians, the fortunate ones at least, head to Europe to play the festival circuit and escape the heat. It didn’t...
July 7, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Courier-Journal posted the following article by Scheri Smith on its website on July 7.) LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Guy Byassee sat outside Union Station in Louisville yesterday morning, checking his watch periodically and staring down the tracks as he waited for the...
July 7, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Boston Globe posted the following Associated Press article on its website on July 7.) PORTLAND, Maine — Amtrak’s Downeaster, which runs between Boston and Portland, appears to be making up some lost ground from a slump in ridership during the winter...
July 7, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press distributed the following article on July 4.) WASHINGTON — Shots were fired at an Amtrak train carrying 167 passengers from Newport News, Va., to Washington on Thursday, an Amtrak spokeswoman said. Two bullets hit the locomotive but no one...
