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As Rail Riders Disappear, the Feds Want To Spend $8.8 Billion Expanding a Rail Station

The rail lines servicing Washington, D.C.'s Union Station are carrying as little as a quarter of their pre-pandemic ridership. Officials still want to triple the station's capacity.

Reason

Metra dreams big for Rock Island line’s future, but money’s an issue

As COVID funds are set to expire, Metra seeks ways to keep services attractive to a ridership increasingly different from the 9-to-5 Loop commuters that once formed its base.

Chicago Sun-Times

Music, booze, gambling – the old Los Angeles-Las Vegas rail had it all. Can a new high-speed project fill the void?

Proponents hope a sleek inter-city service between the two US cities will revolutionize public transportation in the region and reduce the amount of cars on the road

The Guardian - US

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Amtrak now offering faster trains between Chicago, St. Louis

Trains began traveling up to 110 mph on the route Wednesday — a 20 mph increase over the previous top speed.

Chicago Sun-Times

The last overnight train between LA and SF ran in 1968. A startup wants to bring it back

The last time an overnight train connected Los Angeles and San Francisco was 55 years ago.

Los Angeles Times

Amtrak offering reduced fare for ‘Night Owl’ trains between NYC and DC

Amtrak is now offering new “Night Owl” fares for select trains departing from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m.

Tribune News Service

California storm kills two as severe weather continues

Latest storm across California come after months of heavy rain and snowfall that battered the western US state.

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California faces more flooding after strong Pacific storm

A strong late-season Pacific storm that brought damaging winds and more rain and snow to saturated California is blamed for two deaths

The Independent UK

As Amtrak expands service, replaces cars, riders have high hopes

A second daily round trip between Chicago and St. Paul could serve riders as early as 2024, with new train cars on the way.

Chicago Sun-Times

On tap: Booze still allowed on Amtrak in New Hampshire

Riders on an Amtrak train that runs from Maine to Boston can continue buying alcoholic beverages during the 35-mile stretch of the trip that goes through New Hampshire as officials work out a “creative solution” to avoid violating a state liquor law

The Independent UK

Live free or dry: No buying booze on Amtrak in New Hampshire

Riders on an Amtrak train that runs from Maine to Boston will soon have to hold off on buying alcoholic beverages during the 35-mile stretch that goes through New Hampshire

The Independent UK

Philly Amtrak employee charged with storming the Capitol on Jan. 6

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia-based Amtrak employee who skipped work to attend former President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C., has been charged with participating in the U.S. Capitol riot.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

‘Railroads have just had too much power,’ Buttigieg says in Kansas City after Ohio train disaster

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Monday pledged to hold American freight railroads to stricter standards in the wake of a train disaster in Ohio last month and Republican criticism of the Biden administration’s response.

Tribune News Service

Bent track a factor in Montana Amtrak crash that killed 3

Investigators probing a fatal 2021 Amtrak train derailment in Montana say the track had been bent along a curve near the accident site and the problem had been getting worse as freight trains traveled over it before the derailment

The Independent UK

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Al Jazeera

Plane, motorcade, train: How Joe Biden got to Kyiv in secret

Biden’s ‘inherently risky’ trip to Ukraine took planning and logistics with details known to only a few.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Amtrak is spending billions on new train cars. The Northeast Corridor should be 1st in line, some experts say.

When Amtrak's sleek new Airo train cars roll off the assembly line in 2026, they're headed for the Cascades route in the Pacific Northwest.

Daily Mirror

FedEx truck driver dies after train smashes into vehicle and shreds it to pieces

Patrick Metz, 34, died instantly after the FedEx semi-truck he was driving went onto the tracks and was torn apart by a passing Amtrak passenger train in Pleasant Hill, Missouri, US

Tribune News Service

Biden hails NYC rail tunnel as boon to Amtrak, transit riders

President Joe Biden heralded work on the Gateway tunnel project, a massive rail infrastructure initiative he said would improve travel for workers heading across the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey.

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The Independent UK

Biden tells heartwarming but repeatedly debunked Amtrak story yet again

President rode trains from Washington DC to Delaware his entire career as US Senator

Tribune News Service

At ancient Baltimore tunnel that often delayed his travel, Biden touts ‘long overdue’ rail upgrades

BALTIMORE — With the ancient, dimly lit Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel behind him, President Joe Biden touted job creation and labor agreements Monday during a visit to Baltimore to highlight replacement of the tunnel, which has come to symbolize America’s crumbling infrastructure.

Roll Call

'Amtrak Joe' touts transit funding for Northeast Corridor - Roll Call

President Joe Biden is visiting two major rail bottlenecks in the Northeast Corridor to tout funding for their modernization and expansion.

Tribune News Service

Amtrak to restore second round trip to Vancouver in March

SEATTLE — Amtrak will add a second round trip to Vancouver, B.C., starting on March 7, restoring the line to prepandemic levels of service, according to Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell.

The Independent UK

Biden visit to Baltimore highlights rail tunnel project

President Joe Biden is heading to Baltimore to visit an aging rail tunnel that's slated to be replaced with help from bipartisan infrastructure legislation that he signed in 2021

The Independent UK

New England states getting hit by latest winter storm

Parts of the New England states are getting hit with a winter storm that is snarling roads, knocking down electric wires and keeping some children home from school

The Guardian - US

Amtrak passengers stranded for 29 hours feared they had been kidnapped

Some passengers called 911 fearing they were being held hostage, prompting conductor to announce ‘we’re not holding you hostage’

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