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By Martin Kidston, Missoula Current; September 18, 2020 As counties across southern Montana join the Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority…
A press release from Amtrak; July 14, 2020 WASHINGTON, July 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Amtrak Guest Rewards (AGR) is launching…
From Progressive Railroading Magazine; January 6, 2020 The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is seeking public comment on a…
By Tom Banse, Northwest News Network, KUOW; December 23, 2019 A holiday wish of many Pacific Northwest rail fans is…
By Associated Press staff and Seattle Times Staff; September 13, 2019 TACOMA — Three people who sued Amtrak over the deadly…
By Tom Banse, Northwest News Network, KUOW; September 3, 2019 The first of what could be many trials stemming from…
By Adam Duvernay, The Register-Guard; August 28, 2019 Eugene may one day be the tail end of a Pacific Northwest-wide…
By Graham Johnson, KIRO 7; August 20, 2019 SEATTLE – The federal government is helping fund replacements for three older…
From Progressive Railroading Magazine; July 31, 2019 Amtrak announced yesterday it is contributing $750,000 toward a project aimed at reducing…
By Meg van Huygen, Curbed Seattle; July 19, 2019 They called him the Empire Builder. James Jerome Hill was born…
By Lori Aratani, The Washington Post; July 11, 2018 Amtrak officials told federal investigators Wednesday that two recent fatal crashes…
From Tacoma Weekly; June 28, 2018 Following the derailment on an Amtrak train in DuPont on Dec. 18, 2017, Washington…
By Antonio Sierra, East Oregonian; June 27, 2018 The acronym for the Association of Oregon Rail and Transit Activists is…
By Andrea Watts, Correspondent, Construction Equipment Guide; May 8, 2018 With the piling work completed for the new Amtrak locomotive…
By Linda Baker, Oregon Business; March 2, 2018 Oregon Amtrak service was on an upward growth trajectory until December 18,…
By David Shepardson, Reuters, U.S. News & World Report; February 8, 2018 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Amtrak Chief Executive Officer Richard…
By Bart Jansen, USA TODAY; February 6, 2018 A spate of fatal Amtrak accidents in recent months is focusing renewed…
An Opinion From Christian Britschgi, Reason.com; February 1, 2018 An iron law of safety hysteria is that it is drawn…
By Tatevik Aprikyan and Q13 News Staff, Q13 Fox; January 28, 2018 SEATTLE – Just over a month after Amtrak Train…
By Stephen Cohen, SeattlePI.com; January 25, 2018 Federal investigators say the engineer at the controls of the Amtrak passenger train…
By Paris Achen, Capital Bureau, Portland Tribune; January 19, 2018 State-subsidized ridership of Amtrak passenger trains has plummeted in the…
By Mike Lindblom, The Seattle Times; January 2, 2018 The curve where Amtrak Cascades 501 derailed Dec. 18, killing three…
By Jeff Davis, Opinion Contributor, The Hill; January 4, 2018 The fatal Amtrak Cascades derailment in Washington State between Tacoma…