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Amtrak launches official YouTube channel
(Amtrak issued the following press release on February 15, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak passengers have a new way to get information and share the unique experience of Amtrak train travel with today's launch of the Amtrak YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/amtrak....
Reports assail Pagano’s management of Metra
(The following appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on February 12, 2011.) CHICAGO — Two reports issued Friday by consultants hired by Metra in the wake of the Phil Pagano scandal criticize several past management actions at the commuter rail agency and place blame...
LIRR president: 2010 was ‘very challenging’
(The Associated Press circulated the following on February 16, 2011.) NEW YORK — First, the good news. Long Island Rail Road trains broke down less frequently last year than they did in the previous five years. The bad news: the trains were late more often. The...
CAW members approve collective agreement with CN
(The Canadian Press circulated the following on February 14, 2011.) TORONTO — Members of the Canadian Auto Workers have overwhelmingly approved collective agreements with Canadian National Railway that will increase pay scales by 11.4 per cent over four years. The...
Man charged with maing bomb threat on Amtrak train
(The following appeared on the Great Falls Tribune website on February 15, 2011.) GREAT FALLS, Mont. — A Minnesota man appeared Tuesday in Glacier County District Court in Cut Bank on felony charges related to a bomb threat aboard an Amtrak train Monday evening....
Steelworkers decry Indiana GOP’s moves against organized labor
(The following appeared on the Evansville Courier & Press website on February 16, 2011.) INDIANAPOLIS — Union members from Southwestern Indiana condemned what they said are GOP-backed efforts to chip away at the power of organized labor during a Statehouse rally...
Unions under attack in Wisconsin, Ohio and many other states
(The following appeared on the Wall Street Journal website on February 16, 2011.) MADISON, Wis. — Union leaders say overhauls of rules for public- and private-sector unions being considered in Wisconsin, Ohio and about a dozen other states threaten to accelerate the...
Florida governor rejects high-speed rail funds
(Reuters circulated the following on February 16, 2011.) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida's Tea Party movement-backed Governor Rick Scott on Wednesday said he was rejecting federal funds to construct a high-speed railway project in the state. Scott spoke at a news...
Chemical, coal and intermodal demand to drive rail traffic growth this year, Baird says
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on February 14, 2011.) Although rail volumes so far in 2011 have been mixed, there is underlying stability evident and the traffic outlook remains favorable, according to the February edition of Robert W....
Amtrak budget ignores upstate New York
(The following appeared on the Albany Times-Union website on February 15, 2011.) ALBANY, N.Y. — Amtrak's budget proposal for fiscal 2012 includes requests for 40 new passenger coaches for its Acela Express high-speed trains, but no specific items for the Empire...
Amtrak requests $50 million for tunnel project
(The following appeared on the Asbury Park Press website on February 14, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak has included $50 million in its fiscal year 2012 budget request for preliminary engineering and design work for the planned new rail line tunnels under the Hudson...
Amtrak to add 40 coach cars to Acela Express under FY 2012 budget plan
(Amtrak issued the following press release on February 14, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak plans to begin procurement in fiscal year 2012 of 40 additional Acela Express coach cars to increase seating capacity on all existing high-speed train sets to meet growing...
Amtrak: 15 straight months of nationwide growth
(The following appeared on the State Journal-Register website on February 15, 2011.) SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Nearly 194,000 passengers used Amtrak service between St. Louis and Chicago from January through October, an 11.7 percent increase that puts the route among the 10...
High-speed train system has a long way to go
(The following appeared on the USA Today website on February 15, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration is proceeding at full speed with plans to create a national high-speed rail system, proposing billions in next year's budget to help lay the groundwork....
Amtrak may lose money in Obama transportation plan
(Bloomberg News circulated the following on February 14, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rail users said they are concerned that Amtrak, the U.S. passenger railroad, and high-speed rail projects would lose federal money under President Barack Obama’s proposal to create a...
Obama Administration wants $2 billion in TIGER grants
(The following appeared on the Journal of Commerce website on February 14, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The budget plan President Obama sent to Congress would sharply expand the Department of Transportation's discretionary grants program, which covers multi-modal...
DOT budget invests $129 billion in restoring America’s economic competitiveness
(The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following on February 14, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today said President Obama’s $129 billion budget for the U.S. Department of Transportation, the first year of a comprehensive...
High-speed rail may speed by West Texas
(The following appeared on the Abilene Reporter-News website on February 12, 2011.) ABILENE, Texas — President Barack Obama wants to spend $53 billion in a six-year program to help build a high-speed rail network, with an ultimate goal of giving 80 percent of...
Will reality derail plans for NY’s upstate tracks?
(The following appeared on the Albany Times-Union website on February 14, 2011.) RENSSELAER, N.Y. — It took nearly nine years to demolish the two former Amtrak train stations here after the new Rensselaer passenger station opened in 2002. Local officials hope the new...
Landslide disrupts Amtrak traffic in Vancouver, again
(The following appeared on The Columbian website on February 12, 2011.) COLUMBIA, Wash. — A landslide in Vancouver will halt passenger train service through Clark County until 6:50 a.m. Monday. It marks at least the 10th service interruption between Vancouver and...
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