United Rail Passenger Alliance

1. Amtrak is smiling approvingly at one of its bankers, Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, who has filed a bill in the United States Senate to provide Amtrak with $2.8 billion to overhaul existing equipment and build new rolling stock.If this bill becomes law (and, it is only in very early stages), Amtrak must take this opportunity to properly equip itself for the future – both financially and to meet passenger demand – with the correct selection of equipment, not just replacements for existing rolling stock.
2. URPA has updated its 2005 white paper, Concepts of the Successful Long Distance Passenger Train of the Future (PDF).

The successful long distance train of the future

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J. Bruce Richardson
United Rail Passenger Alliance
September 2005

The successful long distance train of the future will look very different from today’s Amtrak long distance train. The train of the future will look more like the successful trains of the past which made money for their owners for very specific reasons.

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Andrew C. Selden, President, Minnesota Association of Railroad Passengers; to the

National Railway Historical Society,
Minneapolis, MN
July 2, 2004

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Suggested Rationalization of Amtrak Florida Service

March 5, 1999

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An excerpt from the article, “How to get Amtrak out of the woods” by Andrew C. Selden, TRAINS magazine, January 1986, pp. 24-30.

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