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Amtrak's Office of the Inspector General warns that the railroad's new Acela trains are not ready to run yet. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
Fred Weiderhold is the former Inspector General of Amtrak and was a 35-year veteran of the agency. He was appointed as the first Inspector General at Amtrak by former Amtrak Chairman, W. Graham Claytor, Jr. in April 1989. Prior to serving as Inspector General, he had held numerous senior positions at Amtrak spanning a 15-year career.
The Amtrak inspector general in a report on Tuesday said the program faces. ... Amtrak, which contracted with Alstom to develop and manufacture 28 new highâspeed trainsets, initially was ...
Avelia Liberty is a tilting high-speed passenger train built for the North American market by French manufacturer Alstom and assembled in the United States. Amtrak has ordered 28 train sets for use on its flagship Acela service along the Northeast Corridor between Boston, New York, and Washington, promising higher frequency and capacity than the first-generation Acela.
Amtrak Police Department prisoner transport vehicle. In 2016, the Amtrak Office of Inspector General launched an investigation into the then-Amtrak Police Chief Polly Hanson, regarding a conflict of interest involving her boyfriend who had been awarded a counterterrorism contract she helped oversee, and in whose award Hanson reportedly had ...
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Poor track conditions that should have been flagged by a freight railroad company’s inspectors caused the derailment of an Amtrak train in Montana that killed three people ...
In the United States, other than in the military departments, the first Office of Inspector General was established by act of Congress in 1976 [1] under the Department of Health and Human Services to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare, Medicaid, and more than 100 other departmental programs. [2]
Amtrak has said it expects to hire 2,500 to 3,500 employees by September 2022, but its own inspector general said this week that the company doesn’t have enough staff or leadership in human ...