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He became Amtrak's CEO on January 17, 2022, serving jointly as president and CEO until Roger Harris was named to the former role six months later. [ 2 ] [ 8 ] He oversaw an infusion of $22 billion in direct federal aid to repair and replace tracks and trains, as well as $44 billion in grants intended to improve U.S. passenger rail service ...
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The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak (/ ˈ æ m t r æ k /; reporting marks AMTK, AMTZ), is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. states and three Canadian provinces. Amtrak is a portmanteau of the words America and track.
Amtrak reported an adjusted operating loss of $705 million for the 12 months ending Sept. 30, down 9% over 2023. Amtrak's prior record was 32.3 million passengers in 2019, which was up 45% from ...
The Newport News Transportation Center is an Amtrak inter-city train station and intermodal transport hub in Newport News, Virginia.The station is located about 1 mile (1.6 km) from Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport on Bland Boulevard between Warwick Boulevard and Interstate 64.
Last March, Amtrak, armed with $66 billion in funding from the 2021 infrastructure bill, began a $6 billion project to build a new tunnel that's scheduled to open in 2035. That was just one of ...
During his tenure at Amtrak, Anderson initiated a variety of controversial policies such as storing equipment during Covid rather than maintaining it in serviceable condition, failing to anticipate the surging passenger demand after Covid, and promoting the retirement of many Amtrak senior managers which robbed the company of much of its ...
Amtrak considered two routes for a Chicago—Grand Rapids train: the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (ex-Pere Marquette Railway), which ran along the Lake Michigan coastline and joined the main Chicago—Detroit line at Porter, Indiana; and a Conrail (ex-Pennsylvania Railroad) route via Kalamazoo. Although the Conrail route was faster, a dispute ...