West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin reaches out to Amtrak

By Andrea Lannom, Reporter, The Register-Herald; April 7, 2018

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin sent a letter urging Amtrak’s CEO to provide more information on how organizations can appeal a new policy under which Amtrak will no longer accept private cars and charter trains on regular routes.

In the policy advisory, Amtrak president and CEO Richard Anderson said that these operations “caused significant operational distraction, failed to capture fully allocated profitable margins and sometimes delayed our paying customers on our scheduled trains.”

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