Editorial: Why doesn’t Amtrak consider economic development?

By The Editorial Board, The Roanoke Times; April 23, 2018

The Deschutes Brewery may not be coming to Roanoke on its original timeline.

Amtrak is putting the brakes on the 611 steam train excursions.

Is everything we held near and dear in Roanoke coming undone? What’s next? Will the Black Dog Salvage be called in to haul away the Mill Mountain Star for scrap metal? Will we wake up to find that Virginia Tech’s football team has been moved to Las Vegas?

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