By Mary Wisniewski, Chicago Tribune; June 5, 2018 The federal government has awarded a long-awaited $132 million grant to help…
By William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief, Railway Age Magazine; June 4, 2018 Amtrak’s just-instituted practice of providing sleeping car customers, beginning…
By Randy Ellis, newsok.com; June 5, 2018 A $2,287,250 contract to continue the work of transforming Oklahoma City’s historic Santa…
By Katrina Lamansky, WQAD 8; June 4, 2018 MOLINE, Illinois — For a third time, the Illinois Department of Transportation…
By Dennis Hannon, Webster-Kirkwood Times; June 1, 2018 If Kirkwood is queen of the St. Louis suburbs, then her 125-year-old…
By Richard Stradling, The News & Observer; June 3, 2018 RALEIGH – You can now catch an Amtrak train between…
A press release from Amtrak; June 1, 2018: New or rebuilt locomotives will provide more reliable service, a smoother ride…
By Andrew Selden, Railway Age Magazine; June 1, 2018 Passenger trains don’t operate in a vacuum. They compete for business…
By Michael Paul Williams, Richmond Times-Dispatch; May 31, 2018 On Thursday, the Amtrak station in Ettrick was the liveliest place…
By Tammy Bain, The North Platte Telegraph; May 31, 2018 No injuries were reported Wednesday night after an Amtrak train…
By David Patch, Staff Writer, The Toledo Blade; May 31, 2018 A coalition of Amtrak employee unions has called on…
By Mallory Shelbourne, The Hill; May 31, 2018 A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday asked for a meeting with…
By Alderman Robert J. Bauman, Urban Milwaukee; May 30, 2018 Today (Wednesday, May 30) the Common Council approved legislation placing…
By Barry Amundson, Inforum; May 30, 2018 FARGO. — U.S. Sen Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., has written to the top Amtrak…
By Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer; May 30, 2018 Democrats and Republicans in Congress don’t agree on much, but two senators…
By Eric Anderson, The Albany Times-Union; May 30, 2018 Hot breakfasts and dinners will disappear from the Lake Shore Limited…
From Progressive Railroading Magazine; May 30, 2018 Progressive Railroading and RailTrends® have named Association of American Railroads President and Chief…
By Jack Moran, The Register-Guard; May 30, 2018 OAKRIDGE — Amtrak is using charter buses as substitutes for passenger trains…
By Meredith Carey, Conde Nast Traveler; May 30, 2018 Ever traveled on Amtrak’s Acela train—with stops in Boston, New York,…
By Julia Mericle, The Hawk Eye; May 30, 2018 FORT MADISON — Amtrak has shuttered its ticket window and eliminated…
By Phoebe Wall Howard and Joe Guillen, Detroit Free Press; May 30, 2018 Ownership of the long-abandoned Michigan Central Station…
By Carl H. Fowler, Commentary, The Albany Times-Union; May 30, 2018 When Amtrak was created in 1971, one of its…
By Mike Hall, The Topeka Capital-Journal; May 29, 2018 People who complain about the government subsidy for Amtrak remind me…
From Progressive Railroading Magazine; May 29, 2018 The U.S. House Appropriations Committee last week approved a $71.8 billion transportation, housing…
By Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer; May 28, 2018 The planned closure of Amtrak’s ticket office at Union Terminal has caused…