CHICAGO–Amtrak’s co-president and CEO, Richard Anderson, spoke to NARP’s annual Fall meeting yesterday and pretty much said all the right things. He indicated unqualified support for the national system, spoke of a ten-year plan for acquiring new equipment, and took a poke at the freight railroads for not meeting their legal obligation to keep Amtrak…
Members of the National Association of Railroad Passengers will congregate in Chicago from the 2nd to the 5th of November for RAILNATION CHICAGO. It’s our annual Fall meeting, but this year it’s more than that. It’s also a celebration commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of NARP in the city where it all began….
I’ve been involved with the National Association of Railroad Passengers for a dozen or more years now. NARP has two primary missions: first, to promote more and better and faster trains; and second, to be an advocate for all rail passengers, whether they’re traveling on a commuter train or a metro system or across the…
As I guess most of us already know, the Trump budget for 2018 eliminates the federal subsidy for Amtrak’s long-distance trains. This doesn’t come from within the Trump Administration, of course. It’s right out of the Heritage Foundation’s playbook. That’s the Washington based libertarian “think tank” that opposes federal funding for pretty much everything, but…