By Dave Bangert, Lafayette Journal & Courier; March 21, 2019
LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Could 15 minutes buy another two years for Amtrak’s Hoosier State, a passenger rail line that comes through Lafayette four days a week?
With time running out at the Indiana Statehouse, where in $3 million in annual state funding for the Hoosier State was stripped from the next two-year budget bill, Amtrak announced Thursday it had found a way to cut 15 minutes from what is now advertised as a five-hour route from Indianapolis to Chicago.