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Passenger rail investment offers non-stop service to a prosperous economy

November 14th, 2020
November 13, 2020 - TheHill.com - Opinion - Bill Flynn, Tony Coscia - After the most contentious election in recent memory, the results are finally in. We congratulate President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their victory and know that high on their...

Amtrak in October.... what's going to happen now?

October 28th, 2020
October 28, 2020 - Commentary by Russ Jackson -   Here we are in October, 2020.  Covid 19 is still spreading across the country, wildfires are burning in California and Colorado, another hurricane is hitting the Gulf Coast, a massive cold front...

All abroad Texas Eagle’s last daily departure from San Antonio to Chicago

October 11th, 2020
October 11, 2020 - Randy Diamond - San Antonio Express-News - The last daily Texas Eagle train from San Antonio to Chicago left the station Sunday morning, its best days trailing far behind it. The train had only four passenger cars. The chef,...

Amtrak service cuts will cost Texas $256 million per year

September 24th, 2020
September 24, 2020 -  TRA Newswire - Washington, DC—The Rail Passengers Association released new research showing that Amtrak’s plan to reduce service on its long-distance routes—a vital transportation link to the 40 percent of the nation’s small and rural communities that...

With Amtrak’s proposed cuts, what will happen to rural rail?

September 16th, 2020
August 27, 2020 -  DailyYonder.com - (editor's note: service to smaller Texas towns on the Texas Eagle route will also be affected by Amtrak's retrenchment to 3x weekly service. Stops at Alpine, Sanderson and Del Rio are already only served three...

Amtrak cutting service to 3x weekly likened to $2 billion "bomb on flyover country"

September 12th, 2020
September 11, 2020 - TRA Newswire - According to the Rail Passengers Association, Amtrak’s response to COVID-19 will drop a $2 billion “bomb on Flyover Country.” Rail Passengers President and CEO Jim Mathews said Amtrak’s plan to reduce service on its long-distance...

Amtrak intercity trains performing better in Covid than major Northeast Corridor

August 27th, 2020
Updated August 28, 2020 - TRA Newswire - Ridership on intercity long-distance services is edging back up despite the pandemic while at the same time Amtrak said it will cut back cross-country trains by some 60% in October Ridership numbers...

Amtrak continues to ignore the needs of Texas passengers

August 26th, 2020
August 26, 2020 - TRA Opinion - Connections... Connections... Connections... Without any institutional knowledge left at Amtrak to schedule trains, no one apparently realizes that while Hurricane Laura heads north up the Mississippi Valley the sun is still shining on the Texas...

3rd in a series: Farewell long-distance trains?

August 24th, 2020
August 23, 2020 - RailwayAge.com - David Peter Alan - Beginning Oct. 1, Amtrak is reducing service on its entire long-distance (L-D) train network from daily to three departures per week, except for the two trains that already run only tri-weekly-only...

Officials and rail advocates push for daily service on Sunset Ltd route

August 21st, 2020
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]August 21, 2020 - TRA Newswire - The largest passenger rail advocacy group, Rail Passengers Association, has started a campaign to take Amtrak's Sunset Limited cross-country service from 3 days a week to daily service across Texas and other Southwest U.S....

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