April 22, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Troubling comments from Richard Anderson, President of AMTRAK at a Southern California rail summit of 150 passenger rail officials, industry professionals and a handful of advocates. Paul Dyson, President of RAILPAC, a West Coast rail...

April 19, 2018 - RailwayAge.com - William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief - Ex-Florida Congressman John Luigi Mica, a foodie who spent a considerable amount of time when he was Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee questioning Amtrak’s food service costs, must be very...

March 23, 2018 - TRA Newswire - Amtrak trains that run on the "host" railroads of BNSF and Union Pacific scored much higher in a new quarterly report card over other railroads that delayed passenger trains across the nation. Most of Amtrak's...

February 3, 2018 - meridianstar.com - Negotiations are underway to revive a long-awaited Amtrak route connecting Atlanta and Ft. Worth, Texas, through Meridian, but it has taken a backseat to a Gulf Coast train route that was abandoned after Hurricane Katrina. “The...

February 2, 2018 - TheHill.com - Jim Matthews, Opinion Contributor - On Wednesday morning, I asked my staff to post a cautionary video of a truck driver in Florida ignoring flashing lights and lowered crossing gates to drive across the tracks,...

November 12, 2017 - Longview News-Journal - The nation's passenger rail system and the Texas Eagle train that stops in Longview appear to be safe from federal budget cuts for now, but rail advocates say train travel needs more than status...

October 6, 2017 - Rail Passengers Association (NARP) - By Jim Mathews, Opinion Contributor, TheHill.com - This summer the White House and a handful of Congress members tried to kill Amtrak’s national network. Both the House and the Senate soundly rejected this outrageous proposal,...

September 10, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Back in 1997 Amtrak's Texas Eagle tri-weekly train was written off as part of a cost-cutting effort by the passenger rail service. The train schedule for the San Antonio to Chicago service was deleted...

September 8, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Amtrak's Sunset Limited service through Houston and Beaumont, a casualty of Hurricane Harvey's catastrophic flooding, restarts service next week. The tri-weekly passenger train service runs on two host railroads, Union Pacific and BNSF Railway. Tracks...

September 5, 2017 - MeridianStar.com - Meridian could benefit one day from a long-time desire, now under study, to re-establish a passenger train route from Ft. Worth, Texas, to Atlanta. The plan is a priority of the Texas-based I-20 Corridor Council. The missing...