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{ Daily Archives } Thursday, July 2008

This Week at Amtrak 2008-06-19

Volume 5 Number 19

“There’s trouble my friend, right here in River City,” sang Tony Award winner Robert Preston first on Broadway in 1957 and on the silver screen in 1962’s The Music Man. Preston was playing Professor Harold Hill, who had just arrived in fictional River City, Iowa on the Rock Island Railroad. The setting [...]

This Week at Amtrak 2008-06-09

Volume 5 Number 17

When the telephone rings here at URPA World Headquarters, one never knows who could be on the other end of the line. These days, it’s often a reporter, looking for a quote about the correlation between high gas prices and Amtrak ridership. (If you believe all reporters call with an open mind [...]

This Week at Amtrak 2008-05-19

Volume 5 Number 16

Here’s a follow-up to the saga of commuter rail in Central Florida, as reported in the previous This Week at Amtrak.

This Week at Amtrak 2008-05-05

Volume 5 Number 15

New commuter rail in Central Florida went down on Friday in the Florida Senate, but it may not be out.

This Week at Amtrak 2008-05-01

Volume 5 Number 14

Mayday! Mayday! Yes, it’s May Day, and Amtrak is having its 37th anniversary of operations, and it still needs all the help it can get.