United Rail Passenger Alliance

Vol. 2, No. 7 – April 13, 2005

1. This Week at Amtrak is back, after an enforced absence due to some annoying and inconvenient health problems. Many thanks to those who inquired about the author’s status.
2. Here we go, again. This is an abridged story (the local angles are omitted) from the Camden, South Carolina Chronicle Independent, along the route of Amtrak’s Silver Star. Many readers of this will clearly remember last December, when the Red Cross was called in to assist stranded passengers on the Coast Starlight (sigh). This story is about the unhappy plight of passengers on the northbound Silver Star. For all of the unhappiness by the passengers, one can only wonder how thrilled CSX was to have its main line blocked by an errant Amtrak train for this long. Read more…