United Rail Passenger Alliance

Andrew Selden offers three examples of Amtrak problem areas that are not only hurting the company, but hurting America’s domestic transportation network as well. These examples highlight why Amtrak’s national long distance system is the most important part of Amtrak.

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1. Last week’s TWA stirred up some mail, including this note from Amtrak’s best chef, west of Chicago, a 30 year veteran of Amtrak: Read more…

Volume 2 Number 40 – December 06, 2005

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1. Come February, don’t get on certain Amtrak trains when you’re hungry. You likely won’t have your appetite appeased by what is being served – or, perhaps, what is not being served. Amtrak is preparing its dining car crews for serious cutbacks in February 2006 with the instigation of one of Amtrak’s worst concepts: “diner lite.”Diner lite will be instituted on the Crescent (still, despite every effort by Amtrak’s dining car department, one of the railroad’s best diners), one of the two Florida trains, the City of New Orleans, Texas Eagle, the Cardinal, and most likely one of the Western transcontinental trains (probably the Sunset Limited). This disaster-in-the-making program was first pulled from under a slimy rock earlier this year when Amtrak was in one of its “wannabe airline” disaster modes.

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Volume 2 Number 39; December 01, 2005

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