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August 22, 2012
Written By Sean Jeans Gail Photo credit: Christopher Ziemnowicz, WikicommonsAccording to this CNN report, as many airplanes try to cram more and more passengers in their planes, Amtrak's 40 inches of personal space is becoming quite the selling point in a competitive travel market....
August 16, 2012
Written By Malcolm Kenton Image: Clker.comThe New York Times published a positive story yesterday on how Amtrak has overtaken airline shuttles as the preferred method of travel between New York and Boston, Philadelphia and Washington over the past decade, thanks to “high [air]fares, slow airport security and frequent flight delays — along with Amtrak’s high-speed Acela trains, online ticket...
August 15, 2012
Written By Malcolm Kenton The third and final installment (for now) of our periodic round-up of goings on in local-level passenger train advocacy: One of NJT's new dual-mode locomotives. Photo by Der Mobilitatsmanager.The New Jersey Association of Railroad Passengers’ Newsletter Report (June 26) has a travelogue from one of the first revenue runs of New Jersey Transit’s new dual-mode locomot...
August 14, 2012
Written By Malcolm Kenton Part 2 of our 3-part series of dispatches from track level across the country: An ASRR coach at Utica Union Station. Photo by NARP member Matt Johnson (tracktwentynine on Flickr).A small group of residents of New York State's Adirondack region areorganizing an online petition drive to prevent the middle section of what is now the Adirondack Scenic Railroad (ASRR) from b...
August 13, 2012
Written By Malcolm Kenton Photo by Garry Hayes, Modesto Junior College.This occasional NARP Blog feature brings you a roundup of local passenger train news from around the country, as reported in the newsletters and blogs of our partners, the state and regional passenger train advocacy groups. This is part 1 of a 3-part series this week. New Mexico’s Rails Inc. has a good multi-pronged argu...