October 2, 2002 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — An Amtrak engineer averted tragedy Saturday when he spotted a stranded minivan on the tracks near San Onofre and slowed his train enough to avoid injuries to the 170 passengers aboard, according to the Orange County Register. The San...
October 2, 2002 | Amtrak, Headlines, Legislation
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thirteen of the nation’s 18 long-distance passenger train routes stand to be eliminated under cuts to Amtrak’s budget pending before the House Appropriations Committee. That’s the assessment of Rep. James L. Oberstar (Minn.), Ranking...
October 2, 2002 | Amtrak, Headlines
SAN JOSE — The train that carried Amtrak President David Gunn to Oakland’s Jack London Square station on Friday was right on time, a good omen for a service he called the nation’s model, the Tri-Valley Herald reports. Amid continuing news of...
October 2, 2002 | Amtrak, Headlines, Legislation
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Leaders of 35 AFL-CIO transportation unions today criticized House Appropriations Committee cuts in Amtrak and highway spending, saying they would cost over 150,000 workers their jobs and jeopardize long-overdue improvements in passenger rail...
October 2, 2002 | Amtrak, Headlines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Okay, it’s time for a pop quiz. The subject is transportation. Ready? Here goes. What two things do Amtrak and the airline industry have in common? The first one’s easy: Both of them are running around Washington looking for...
October 2, 2002 | Amtrak, Headlines
WASHINGTON –Amtrak employees and private lenders would be repaid a small fraction of the $8.3 billion the railroad owes them if it were to be liquidated, according to an Associated Press report. The nation’s other railroad workers and employers would end...
October 1, 2002 | Amtrak, Headlines
BOSTON — The MBTA’s commuter rail work force is overstaffed, files nearly a quarter of all injury claims in the Northeast Corridor, and pays more overtime than any other operation in Amtrak’s system, according to a letter by Amtrak CEO David Gunn to...
September 30, 2002 | Amtrak, Headlines
BOSTON — Amtrak’s past fiscal foibles were bad enough. Then came the cracked yaw dampers on the Acela Express, which knocked out the money-making, high-speed service for a month. It’s still not all the way back, according to an editorial in the...
September 30, 2002 | Amtrak, Headlines
NEW YORK — It is time for Congress and the Bush administration to stop playing games with Amtrak’s future, according to an editorial in the New York Times. They must either provide national passenger rail service with adequate resources, or acknowledge...
September 27, 2002 | Amtrak, Headlines
HARRISBURG, Pa. — It’s not exactly high-speed mobile Internet access, but a Pennsylvania company is about to conduct tests of a system that will give Amtrak rail passengers something that emulates interactive television in their seats, according to a...
