By The Editorial Board, The Herald-Dispatch; March 5, 2019
You’ve got to give the guy running Amtrak credit. If he wanted to kill the goodwill his organization has built up over the past 50 years, getting rid of the New River Train was a good way to do it.
Last week, Chris Lockwood, general manager of the Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society Inc., the nonprofit organization running the annual New River excursion train, announced that the nation’s last mainline passenger excursion will not run this year.