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...Amtrak, the national passenger rail service, cancelled all its long-distance trips starting on Thursday because it operates on tracks owned by freight railroads outside the north-east....
...Amtrak, the national rail service, owns the station but the commuter lines from New Jersey and Long Island account for most of the traffic....
...US jazz artist Alberta Hunter sang the “Amtrak Blues”, ruing her lousy lover who’d “pawn the Holy Bible just to get his Amtrak railroad fare”....
...Biden is a longtime rail commuter who championed the $24bn infusion that Amtrak, the nation’s largest passenger railroad, recently received to modernise its north-east corridor....
...The flash flood emergency for all five of New York City’s boroughs was the first ever issued by the National Weather Service, officials said....
...Another $66bn is being allocated to passenger and freight rail, including Amtrak, the national rail network that counted Biden as a commuter when he took it daily from Delaware to Washington while a senator...
...Yet the Vermont senator seems to be a happy passenger on Amtrak Joe’s train. Their policies may differ but their values are not miles apart....
...Is Joe Biden’s problem in the race for the Democratic nomination for US president that he didn’t collar enough fellow passengers on Amtrak?...
...Amtrak, the national passenger rail service, now provides around 32m passenger trips per year across 21,400 miles of routes, and is impressively semi-functional for a system whose notional funding...
...Amtrak, the national passenger rail company, operates the trains under contract to the states of Washington and Oregon, which own the Amtrak Cascades service....
...line between Boston and Washington which Amtrak’s Acela now serves....
...Amtrak – formally the National Passenger Railroad Corp – is a government-controlled company, relying partly on funding from Washington....
...Americans, it seems, are not proud of their national rail service. Amtrak’s reach was limited, they warned....
...In Japan, however, the former Japan National Railways was split up along regional lines and then everything was sold together....
...Out of sight of the disgruntled passengers, however, Amtrak’s engineers are being supported by some of the world’s most advanced technologies to prevent those delays....
...In May 2015 eight died when a train operated by Amtrak, the national passenger railroad, crashed outside Philadelphia. Both were a result of trains taking bends at excessive speeds....
...But the records of Amtrak and the Post Office hardly offer enormous encouragement about the prospects for highly dynamic management....
...Gladys Knight’s version of the song is beautifully embellished by her backing singers, the Pips, with their signature lines and railroad “Whoo-whoos”....
...a day, according to Amtrak....
...the Federal Railroad Administration....
...Robert Sumwalt, a board member at the National Transportation Safety Board, was speaking after an Amtrak train from Washington to New York veered off the tracks at 9.21pm on Tuesday in northern Philadelphia...
...Amtrak said there had been 238 passengers and five crew on board the train when it derailed....
...In December 2013, a driver suffering from sleep apnoea rounded a 30mph curve at Spuyten Duyvil, in New York City, at 82mph, derailing the train and killing four passengers....
...Freight and passenger railroads have had to grapple with issues ranging from equipment incompatibility to sensitive negotiations with Native American groups over lineside antennae....
...(FT) In defence of Amtrak Europeans swear by their rail networks. Americans, not so much. The recent fatal crash has renewed calls to reprivatise Amtrak, to make it run more like the airline industry....
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