Amtrak
Sound Transit board member holds agency to blame for DuPont derailment
Four of six trains to be removed from Amtrak Cascades service after NTSB recommendation
NTSB: “The engineer was set up to fail” in 2017 Amtrak derailment that killed 3 near Dupont, Wash.
Trump budget slashes funding for Amtrak long-distance service
(Source: Progressive Railroading 03/12/2019) President Donald Trump’s fiscal-year 2020 budget request submitted yesterday calls for “restructuring” Amtrak and slashing the railroad’s budget to emphasize shorter distance routes. Administration officials cited low ridership and large operating losses on longer distance routes for the need to restructure the national intercity passenger rail system. “The administration believes that restructuring the Amtrak system…
Read MoreMicrosoft leads charge for high-speed rail corridor in Pacific Northwest
(Source: Freight Waves, January 21, 2019) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Commuters in the Pacific Northwest love to complain about how slow (and archaic) it is to travel between Portland and Seattle by train. It takes about three and a half hours to traverse the 170-mile distance on the Amtrak Cascades, which runs only four trains per…
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