From the RailPAC team, we present to you some of the best rail-related stories we’ve read over this past month. In between editions on this space, you can also subscribe to our weekly emails sent… Read More »This Month in Rail: June 2017
From the RailPAC team, we present to you some of the best rail-related stories we’ve read over this past month. In between editions on this space, you can also subscribe to our weekly emails sent… Read More »This Month in Rail: May 2017
From the RailPAC team, we present to you some of the best rail-related stories we’ve read over this past month. In between editions on this space, you can also subscribe to our weekly emails sent… Read More »This Month in Rail: April 2017
From the RailPAC team, we present to you some of the best rail-related stories we’ve read over this past month. In between editions on this space, you can also subscribe to our weekly emails sent… Read More »This Month in Rail: March 2017
From the RailPAC team, we present to you some of the best rail-related stories we’ve read over this past month. In between editions on this space, you can also subscribe to our weekly emails sent… Read More »This Month in Rail: February 2017
Starting with this edition for the first month of 2017, RailPAC introduces this new series on our blog to highlight the best rail-related stories over the last month. In between editions on this space, you… Read More »This Month in Rail: January 2017
From an email sent by Amtrak CEO Wick Moorman on Jan. 4, 2017. His full email is reposted below. Only changes to the repost is the formatting, ensuring clarity when reading. Special Employee Advisory from… Read More »Amtrak CEO announces organizational revamp for 2017
Let’s start with the ugly status of the Dining car removal from the Silver Star train, since it’s the hottest news. On January 28, just as this is being written, URPA learned that Amtrak employees were told the day before that the Star’s dining car is PERMANENTLY gone. As predicted here since this “experiment” was first announced last summer, there was no doubt it was going to be a permanent discontinuance. Read More »Amtrak Long Distance News in the New Year … the good, some bad, and the expected “ugly”
A well-informed source has told RailPAC that Pacific Parlour Car service will be missing from the Coast Starlight in the coming weeks because the FRA has some concerns about the glazing. Apparently one car has… Read More »Pacific Parlour Car Temporary Withdrawal
Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief, Railway Age The House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee has released H.R. 3763, the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015, commonly referred to as the “highway bill.” Buried… Read More »PTC: “It ain’t over till it’s over”