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Amtrak May Layoff Some Nonunion Employees

December 4, 2011

2012 will witness dramatic cuts to Amtrak funding and the Philadelphia Inquirer has reported that some of the early effects of these cuts will soon be felt by Amtrak employees.  Last month Amtrak began offering voluntary buyouts to management employees, but there have now been discussions about the possibility of laying off the nonunion workers [...]

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Amtrak: Record Breaking Thanksgiving Ridership

November 30, 2011

It is well known that Thanksgiving is one of the busiest travel weekends of the year, but an Amtrak press release has revealed that this Thanksgiving may have been one of the busiest ever.  Amtrak’s preliminary ridership numbers indicated that 720,000 people traveled on Amtrak trains this holiday.  When compared to the 2010 Thanksgiving travel [...]

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Amtrak’s Ill-fated LAKE COUNTRY LIMITED

November 20, 2011

Amtrak’s Lake Country Limited was begun on April 15, 2000 to operate over the ex-Milwaukee Road “J” Line to Janesville, WI. It was started to tap into the freight service from the General Motors plant, as well as dried goods. However, they were required by law to carry a passenger car in the consist. Stops [...]

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Amtrak’s HOOSIER STATE

November 11, 2011

After the devastating “Carter Cuts” on fiscal year, 1979, Indianapolis, Indiana became the largest city in the country without passenger service. Public pressure brought service in the way of Amtrak’s  HOOSIER STATE, which began operation on October 1, 1980. The train utilized the ex-PRR mainline to Colehour Junction, where it swung off onto the Bernice [...]

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Amtrak’s Total Cost Put Into Perspective

November 10, 2011

For the last several months, Amtrak has been attacked in Washington and in the general public as a waste of tax payers money.  In 2011 alone, Amtrak received $1.4 billion in taxpayer subsidies, which many feel is not a positive use of government funds.   The solution for this perceived problem has been to privatize the [...]

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Amtrak Will Keep Control of the Northeast Corridor

November 9, 2011

The Associated Press has reported that House of Transportation Committee chairman, U.S. Rep. John Mica, has retracted his demand for Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor to be taken over by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Prior to his recent change in stance, Mica had previously stated that removing Amtrak from the Northeast Corridor would be a condition [...]

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