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New Gulf Coast Train: Now The Hard Part

Happy ‘National Train Day’!

Northern Lights Filled Our Skies

Update on BNSF Derailment in New Mexico

Real Progress For New Trains Between Mobile and New Orleans

Amtrak Board: That’s More Like It

Southwestern Rail Conference Turns 20

New York's Rep. Williams Calls for Upgrades to Empire Corridor

Amtrak Is Still The Greenest Travel Choice

Passenger Rail Is Attracting Industry Allies

(Coincidentally?) Sunset Tops FRA’s Most-Improved List

Congress Examines State of Commuter Rail Industry

Maps, Damnned Maps, and Passengers

Why Are We Still Talking About Amtrak Profitability?

“But what would that money get us?”

Amtrak Says Union Pacific Is Thumbing Its Nose At STB Order

Check Out This Cool New Map!

'Bad Case of Congress Brain'

"The support from the Rail Passengers Association, and from all of you individually, has been incredibly important to Amtrak throughout our history and especially so during the last trying year."

Bill Flynn, Amtrak CEO
April 19, 2021, speaking to attendees at the Rail Passengers Virtual Spring Advocacy Conference