By Dave Bangert, Lafayette Journal & Courier; February 19, 2019
LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The future of Amtrak’s Hoosier State line, a passenger train that stops in downtown Lafayette four days a week running between Indianapolis and Chicago, took another hit Tuesday, when a proposed Indiana House budget plan stripped $3 million annually from the state’s next two-year budget.
An advocate for Greater Lafayette’s long-standing efforts to save the Hoosier State said community leaders, who have been supplementing state payments to Amtrak to the tune of a combined $500,000 a year for the past five years, aren’t giving.