Amtrak turned 40 years old earlier this month, and of the several crosses our national rail passenger system has borne through all those years, by far the heaviest has to...
In every new session of Congress, Republicans talk about reducing or even eliminating the federal government’s subsidy for Amtrak. But now the GOP has taken control of the House and...
Congress passed some important legislation last year and, with any luck, it should have a major impact on rail transportation in the U.S. For one thing, it authorized increased funding...
I got an email yesterday from a friend in Kansas who was wondering why so many Republicans in Congress are so adamantly against using tax dollars to pay for rail...