May 9, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on May 8.) NEW CUMBERLAND — Butch, an injured egret that spent nearly a week trapped inside a minivan bumper while it traveled by rail and highway from Florida to Pennsylvania, flew home Thursday — on a...
May 9, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Sacramento Bee posted the following story by Matthew Barrows on its website on May 9.) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For the third time since November, Amtrak officials threw a platform party to celebrate an additional round trip on its Capitol Corridor service....
May 8, 2003 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The Savannah Morning News posted the following article by Paula Reed Ward on its website on May 8.) SAVANNAH, Ga. — Tuesday’s train wreck in Liberty County was the first fatal collision at that railroad crossing, but the fourth crash there in the last 15...
May 8, 2003 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following story on May 7. Brother Larry Wayne Edenfield was a member of BLE Division 35 in Jacksonville, Fla.) SAVANNAH, Ga. — An Amtrak locomotive engineer died Wednesday from injuries sustained a day earlier when his train...
May 7, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following article by Alan J. Keays was published by the Rutland Herald on May 6.) RUTLAND, Vt. — William McDonald said he still gets a bit of a chill thinking of the arrival of the Ethan Allen Express on its first trip into Rutland. And it’s not because it...
May 7, 2003 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The Savannah Morning News posted the following on its website on May 7.) 1998 January — A freight train derailed near Ogeechee Road in southwest Chatham County, just outside the city limits. There were eight railroad cars; none turned over. There were no...
May 7, 2003 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following article by Russ Bynum on May 6.) HINESVILLE, Ga. — An Amtrak train rammed a lumber truck at a dirt-road crossing in southeast Georgia on Tuesday, killing the truck driver and critically injuring the train engineer....
May 7, 2003 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(The Savannah Morning News posted the following article by Lewis Levine on its website on May 7.) HINESVILLE, Ga. — Phil Odom sat on his porch sipping iced tea, trying to block out the sounds of CSX Corp.’s construction crews removing the remains of an...
May 6, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The New York Times posted the following article by Matthew L. Wald on its website on May 5.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Amtrak tries to persuade Congress to finance a comprehensive plan to return to a state of good physical repair and fiscal stability over the next...
May 5, 2003 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Missoulian posted the following editorial on its website on April 5.) MISSOULA, Mont. — The Bush administration last week sketched out its plan to overhaul Amtrak, the money-losing national passenger line that provides service across northern Montana on the...
