Amtrak has been gaining passengers steadily for the past several years. That we know. The big problem has been not enough equipment to comfortably handle all that new business. A...
Eighteen billion of the bailout dollars given to Wall Street firms in 2008 were used to pay bonuses to executives of those firms. Eighteen billion is twice as much money...
The economic stimulus package is now being debated in Congress. Those of us who are advocates for improving and expanding passenger rail in this country are doing our best to...
Clearly, Barack Obama’s historic rail journey from Philadelphia to Washington’s Union Station has dramatically raised public awareness of rail travel in general and Amtrak in particular. That’s wonderful, but let...