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Covid Cuts: Disappointing, but Inevitable

CSX Agrees to Amtrak Conditions for New England Trains

Amtrak, CP Announce Agreement on KCS Merger

Passengers to Engineers: Please Don’t Quit

Hearing on IIJA Reveals Details on Amtrak Disruptions

STB To CSX: Let Amtrak Survey Choctaw Yard

RAISE Grants Direct $250 Million to Rail and Transit

House Passes Build Back Better Act

Time To Get To Work!

What’s in the Investment in Infrastructure and Jobs Act (IIJA)?

Historic Passenger Rail Infrastructure Bill Passes

Reconciliation Draft Bill Includes $10 billion for HSR!

Who Runs The Trains When They Quit?

Senate Releases FY22 Budget While Passengers Wait on IIJA

New STB Schedule Kicks Gulf Service Decision to Early 2022

We Aren’t Out of the Woods Yet

Update on the Fight for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

Rail Passengers Statement on Shooting in Tucson, AZ

"The support from the Rail Passengers Association, and from all of you individually, has been incredibly important to Amtrak throughout our history and especially so during the last trying year."

Bill Flynn, Amtrak CEO
April 19, 2021, speaking to attendees at the Rail Passengers Virtual Spring Advocacy Conference