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Gulf Coast gets $5.4 million for new Amtrak passenger trains from New Orleans to Mobile

May 3rd, 2020
May 2, 2020 - SunHerald.com - More money has been awarded to restoring a passenger rail service between New Orleans and Mobile, Mississippi’s U.S. congressmen announced Friday. A $5.45 million grant from the Federal Railroad Administration to the Southern Rail Commission will...

Riding trains in these day of COVID-19

May 2nd, 2020
May 1, 2020 - I’m aboard Amtrak’s Texas Eagle, train #21, en-route to Fort Worth, Texas today and it’s eerily quiet onboard. Life on Amtrak’s national rail system in these days of COVID-19 reminds me of a tune rolling around in my...

Amtrak, Texas transit agencies modify schedules and policies during Coronavirus

March 27th, 2020
March 27, 2020 - TRA Newswire  - Amtrak and transit agencies in Texas have changed policies and modified schedules in response to a drastic drop in ridership during the Covid-19 virus pandemic. While Amtrak still maintains it's Texas service with the Heartland...

Coronavirus relief package Includes $1 billion for Amtrak, $25 billion for transit agencies

March 27th, 2020
March 27, 2020 - railpassengers.org - The U.S. House voted to send the CARES Act to the president’s desk this afternoon, enacting a $2 trillion coronavirus relief package into law and providing critically needed financial assistance to rail and transit operators...

Kansas Senate passes resolution supporting extension of Heartland Flyer from Texas to Kansas

March 22nd, 2020
March 22, 2020 - TRA Newswire - Rail travel from Fort Worth northward through Oklahoma to Kansas took a step forward with the entire Kansas State Senate passing a resolution in support of passenger train service to extend the daily Heartland...

AMTRAK board to replace CEO: Anderson out - Flynn in

March 2nd, 2020
March 2, 2020 - TRA Newswire - The Amtrak board is to announce this week that CEO Richard Anderson is being replaced by William Flynn, who has a background in both air and sea logistics and railroading. Anderson had apparently fallen...

The Amtrak Funding Déjà Vu—Again

February 23rd, 2020
February 12, 2020 - Railway Age - Color it neither Democratic nor Republican. It’s Amtrak—or, more precisely, the Amtrak déjà vu. Since its 1971 creation by Congress as America’s national intercity passenger railroad, Amtrak’s survival has been a near-run thing dependent...

Passenger rail study Texarkana-Little Rock-Memphis flawed?

February 7th, 2020
February 7, 2020 - TRA Newswire - A recently released study of potential passenger rail service from Texarkana, Texas through Arkansas to Memphis, Tennessee may be flawed, according to one rail advocate. The $900,000 state-commissioned rail study that involved the Arkansas...

Gulf Coast rail 1 step closer: Mobile AL City Council votes to fund Amtrak

February 7th, 2020
February 6, 2020 - apr.org / railpassengers.org  - Passenger rail service between Mobile and New Orleans took a big step forward this week. The Mobile City Council voted to pay up to $3 million to cover some operating costs for the...

Is US passenger rail a thing of the past—or the future?

December 9th, 2019
December 6, 2019 - forbes.com - Michael Goldstein - Can America’s long-neglected railroads provide a viable alternative for passenger travel, as congestion and climate concerns increasingly affect ground and air transportation? There are reasons for optimism, as perpetually put-upon Amtrak recently posted...

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