Richmond, Virginia columnist Michael Paul Williams: Federal Railroad Administration is doing train customers a disservice in bypassing Ettrick for new Petersburg station

By Michael Paul Williams, Richmond Times-Dispatch; May 31, 2018

On Thursday, the Amtrak station in Ettrick was the liveliest place in a fading village.

More than a dozen Marines from Fort Lee waited for the train that would take them to Camp Lejeune, joined by pockets of other passengers in the waiting room of a station that dates back to 1955. Overlooking them all was a mural representing the previous 1903 train depot, flanked by a steam locomotive and a modern-day Amtrak train.

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