Amtrak’s Anderson Backs L/D Trains.
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Amtrak’s Anderson Backs L/D Trains.

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…

Long-Distance Trains In Jeopardy.
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Long-Distance Trains In Jeopardy.

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…