There was a high-level meeting a couple of months ago to discuss the fate of the Southwest Chief. All interested parties were there, including two United States senators and at least one very senior Amtrak executive. The purpose of the meeting was to hear how Amtrak proposed to transport passengers between Albuquerque, New Mexico,…
I assume that most of you are up to date on Amtrak’s threat to discontinue the Southwest Chief or, at the very least, seriously modify it’s schedule and quality of service. You can go here for a recap of the story if you need to. Meanwhile, in a distressing new development, we find that…
There’s a lot of concern out there for the future of Amtrak’s national network. Whether by benign neglect or a deliberate act of murder, a lot of people—many of them supposedly “in the know”—think that Amtrak’s national network has been targeted for extinction. For one thing, the Trump Administration wants to end Amtrak’s federal…
People who are into railroading are still discussing the accident in Hoboken yesterday. Much of the talk is about New Jersey Transit’s asking for and apparently getting official permission to exempt the Hoboken station from installing PTC. Interestingly, there have been conflicting statements as to whether or not PTC would have prevented the accident….