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	Amtrak: passenger train's future is in the balance \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Amtrak – oficially known as The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (NPRC) – started business on May 1, 1971 when Clocker No. 235 departed New York Penn Station at 12:05 a.m.
		Amtrak reportedly lost $21 billion in its first 30 years of operation, but it has pinned its hopes for a brighter future on the promise of high speed trains.
		The Amtrak Reform Council, an independent federal commission established in 1997, offers a chart that shows the ups and downs of Amtrak ridership over the past 20 years.
	www.csmonitor.com /specials/amtrak/links_web.html (696 words)

	Amtrak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Among the exceptions are Amtrak's Pacific Surfliners; which use the opposite numbering system inherited from their former operator, the Santa Fe Railroad, and some Empire Corridor Trains.
		Amtrak's ability to upgrade the corridor to accommodate freight, commuter and high-speed trains enabled it to avoid the enormous costs and environmental issues associated with construction of new right-of-way.
		Amtrak trains operate every minute of the entire year, serving more than 500 stations in 46 states.
	www.gptwo.com /Guide_Content/amtrak.htm (512 words)

	Amtrak Facts
		Amtrak owns three heavy maintenance facilities in Wilmington, and Bear, Delaware and Beech Grove, Indiana, as well as other maintenance facilities in Boston, Chicago, Hialeah, FL., Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, Niagara Falls, Oakland, Rensselaer, NY, Seattle, and Washington, DC.
		Amtrak owns 17 tunnels consisting of 29.7 miles of track and 1,186 bridges consisting of 42.5 miles of track.
		Amtrak is the nation's largest provider of contract-commuter service for state and regional authorities
	www.nationalatlas.gov /articles/transportation/a_amtrak.html (569 words)

	RAILROAD.NET - Prototype Review: Walthers™ Budd Passenger Cars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Amtrak plated over the window areas, removed the interiors and fitted the cars with a roll-up baggage door in the center of the car side.
		Amtrak acquired a goodly number of these cars and still uses at least fourteen of them today for baggage, mail and express shipments all across the country.
		Amtrak did acquire the three ACL coaches but they were retired and scrapped by the mid-1970's.
	www.railroad.net /articles/modelrailroading/walthersbudd/index.php (2467 words)

	Clocker train gaps may be left unfilled - On Track On Line Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Schedulers at NJ Transit and Amtrak haven't decided whether Clocker express trains that were pulled from service during the spring will return.
		Now it is up to Amtrak to determine when the trains are "in service", but for those 16 trainsets, bad brake rotors are not the excuse.
		Thing is with gas going to $3 a gallon AMtrak should be able to fill every seat it can provide around the country so Amtrak would be having a change of plans righ about now.
	www.on-track-on-line.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=11599 (958 words)

	UTU: News
		Amtrak and NJ Transit said it's sensible for NJ Transit to assume responsibility for the Clockers because most of the people who ride those trains board them in New Jersey and use NJ Transit passes.
		Clockers terminate their runs at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Station in New York, making stops, depending on the train, at North Philadelphia, Cornwells Heights, Trenton, Princeton Junction, New Brunswick, Metropark, Newark Liberty International Airport and Newark.
		Warrington said Amtrak began cross-honoring NJ Transit monthly and weekly passes on the Clockers in the 1980s, when NJ Transit faced capacity problems and Clockers served as an alternative to crowded Northeast Corridor trains.
	www.utu.org /worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=13791 (1253 words)

	Amtrak Schedule changes for April (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The average time on the clocker is over 90 minutes, where the regional is closer to 75 (#170 and #193 are often just 70 minutes when the sun and moon are lined up right).
		Amtrak typically tries to release the new bi-annual timetable on the same weekend that we transition either to or from daylight savings time.
		When the rest of the country is on daylight time and the Amtrak trains are still running at their normal times, trains in these areas will arrive one hour earlier than the times in the Fall/Winter timetable.
	www.flyertalk.com /forum/showthread.php?t=407543 (1997 words)

	Amtrak
		The club, which leases one Amtrak car each way between Princeton Junction and New York City, is the last private commuter club in the system, an Amtrak spokeswoman in Washington said.
		Michael Bonner, manager of Amtrak's Clocker service between New York and Philadelphia, said it was difficult to determine whether the company makes or loses money on the lease.
		She said she did not have data comparing the number of Clocker service riders before and after Sept. 11 but said Amtrak increased the number of cars briefly after the attack before reverting to earlier levels.
	www.bmwe.org /News/2002/02feb/06.htm (1432 words)

	SierraActivist.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Amtrak began accepting NJ Transit monthly and weekly passes on Clockers in the 1980s to ease overcrowding on NJ Transit trains.
		Equipment costs will not go up radically because NJ Transit already supplies Amtrak with engines for the Clockers, and some of the new bilevel rail cars that should be arriving in a few years were planned for Clocker runs.
		Clockers provide needed capacity on the busy Northeast Corridor and a one-seat ride between Philadelphia and New York and New Jersey points in between.
	sierraactivist.org /print.php?sid=45089 (405 words)

	Business Class - ACE RAIL FORUMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Tonight, Amtrak is pulling the plug on the Clocker, established by the Pennsylvania Railroad in the 1950s to provide hourly service between Philadelphia and New York.
		Wouldn't it be nice to have an Amtrak California trainset running on the ACE route, just because it is caused Altamont Commuter Express, with the word Commuter in emphasis, doesn't mean that you can put plastic seats with little or no padding in them.
		Amtrak California and ACE will now connect when the new midday train starts at the end of August, or as it is planned.
	forum.acerail.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=346 (4097 words)

	Clocker car's time runs out [Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen]
		Fraser said he's been speaking with Amtrak and NJ Transit officials for months, knowing that the Clockers' days were numbered.
		Amtrak doesn't have a train that stops at Princeton Junction, where almost all its members board, during the morning rush.
		Amtrak conductors told members the best bet might be to tack on an extra car to the Keystone trains that run between Harrisburg, Pa., and New York.
	www.ble.org /pr/news/pf_headline.asp?id=14847 (901 words)

	Amtrak News
		Amtrak says three recent power failures cannot be blamed on deteriorating infrastructure.
		Amtrak ticket agent retires after 20+ years at Winona WI station.
		Amtrak declines idea to move facility to B.C. Amtrak declines Michigan lawmakers request to move maintenance facility from Indiana.
	www.railserve.com /railnews/amtrak_news.html (8623 words)

	West Windsor & Plainsboro Today: WWP Chat - Future for Clocker service? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Even before Amtrak's Clocker train stops at a station, crew members often warn passengers not to use NJ Transit one-way or round-trip tickets.
		The trenton times reported today that NJ Transit and Amtrak will be meeting soon to discuss whether the clocker is coming back when the schedule is released in October.
		Assuming the Amtrak guy isn't totally wrong about his own train, it seems like Amtrak is content to let people just show up for their normally scheduled train and get an unpleasant surprise...
	www.wwptoday.com /dcforum/roads_rails/275.html (2056 words)

	Lots of Seats
		The annual amount to Amtrak could be as high as $70,000, for one car on the 7:59 morning Clocker from Princeton Junction and one car on the 5:42 out of Penn Station in the evening.
		By contrast, Amtrak says that riders wanting to lease cars for special events could pay as much as $8,000 for one round trip between Philadelphia and New York, representing about what the railroad would get if the 80-seat car were full of full-fare paying passengers.
		But Michael Bonner, the Amtrak official who oversees the Clocker service, said that — despite what overcrowded riders might think — the club was not taking away precious seats that should be available to everyone first come first served.
	www.bmwe.org /News/2002/05may/50.htm (1336 words)

	Two CLOCKERS Suspended Due to Ongoing Equipment Shortage - On Track On Line Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Amtrak has announced that effective Tuesday, February 17, 2004, Clocker trains #628 and #627 will be temporarily suspended.
		Customers boarding in Cornwells Heights are encouraged to travel on Amtrakâs Clocker train #624, which departs Cornwells Heights at 6:56 a.m., or Amtrakâs Keystone train #640, which departs Cornwells Heights at 8:10 a.m.
		Due to equipment shortages last week, some Clocker service (trains #628 and #627) was temporary suspended, and NJ TRANSIT trains were used to accommodate Amtrak passengers between Trenton and New York.
	www.on-track-on-line.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=3480 (599 words)

	David Patterson: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		While at Amtrak he was responsible for the development and successful operations of Amtrak's equipment leasing and sales business.
		In this capacity, he was responsible for fleeting the new Panama Canal Railroad with its current passenger equipment consisting of rebuilt clocker passenger cars and EMD F40-PH-2 locomotives, and also developed successful leasing arrangements with major U.S. and Canadian commuter operators, tour and excursion operators and freight railroads.
		He also served in Amtrak's Treasury department and was instrumental in the acquisition and financing of rolling stock, including the current Acela high-speed train equipment, Superliner passenger cars, Viewliner passenger cars and GE locomotives.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Patterson_David_607054330.htm (436 words)

	The Clocker takeover--dose it mean less trains?
		Amtrak made their usual confusing statement--something about keeping the number of their northbound trains the same but increasing the southbound total by 2.
		You've got a combination of Amtrak monthly ticket riders on this train and regular passengers being booked through the reservation system.
		Amtrak needs another train to mirror Train 170 if you ask me - or help take the burden off of it at least in Philly.
	www.trainorders.com /discussion/read.php?4,1015956,nodelay=1 (345 words)

	Save Cornwells Heights
		I have no intention of “selling out” to Amtrak’s party line, and I expect to post criticisms on this site in the future, but to the extent that I do so, I wish it to be viewed as honest disagreement with good men who work under very difficult conditions and constraints.
		Fire and Motion request to pelt Amtrak’s directors with calls for an end to the secrecy with which they manage their company amidst constant public support.
		I call on Amtrak to conduct its business under the watch of the public eye, much as government-operated metropolitan transit agencies invite public participation in their collective thought and planning.
	www.savecornwellsheights.com /9-16-2005.htm (1250 words)

	Clocker (Amtrak) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The last Clocker train ran on October 28, 2005.
		The new trains would operate on approximately the same schedule as the former Clocker trains.
		New Jersey Transit (NJT) passholders could ride Clockers, which were listed in the NJT timetable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clocker_(Amtrak) (343 words)

	NJ Transit Train from 30th St. to NYC? - PhillyBlog - Philadelphia
		The clocker service does not, however, service many local stops that the R7 does so it is not a perfect subsitute.
		On a side note, under the Bush administration Amtrak breakup plan, each state would be responsible for funding the trains that run in it.
		amtrak just about makes money on these suckers as is and they have relatively high operating costs and little efficiency.
	www.phillyblog.com /philly/showthread.php?t=11254 (1120 words)

	Lots of Seats, but Sorry, This Car's Taken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Whatever benefits there are to commuting into the city by train are countered by the increasingly uncomfortable riding conditions (not to mention the "cattle calls" at NY Penn Station, often only minutes before the trains are scheduled to depart).
		Perhaps Amtrak should be looking at trends and trying to be more proactive instead of whining that they have too much demand for their services.
		Amtrak will use whatever tracks they want to use at Penn Station -- it's their station, so the burden of any capacity shortfalls is going to fall on NJT and LIRR.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/687759/posts (4280 words)

	Lots of Seats, but Sorry, This [Amtrak] Car's Taken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		I used to take the Amtrak from Syracuse to NYC because the cost of flying was ridiculously expensive.
		If the whiners are not happy with the conditions on the Clockers, let them take one of the non-clocker Amtrak trains, and pay the higher fare to ride in a better class.
		It's probably easier just to lease the car from Amtrak, but I'm guessing these guys are "big money" and could probably get a really sheik car for their journey instead.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/689247/posts (2656 words)

	Amtrak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Amtrak's southbound Crescent passes through Norcross, Ga., on Oct. 12, 2003.
		In fiscal year 2002, despite a national downturn in travel, Amtrak served 23.4 million passengers.
		Each day, approximately 66,000 passengers travel on Amtrak.
	railfanning.harpblaster.net /profiles/amtrak.htm (127 words)

	Penn: Office of the Comptroller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Visit Amtrak for the latest news release on this topic.
		Therefore, Amtrak is taking a number of steps to deal with the temporary cancellation of Acela Express trains.
		Amfleet equipment will be returned to the Corridor and Metroliner sets will be deployed in a manner that services the maximum number of our passenger.
	www.finance.upenn.edu /comptroller/travel/news.shtml (567 words)

	Long Distance Trains Lead 2.7% Amtrak Ridership Growth Rate
		Amtrak's latest national ridership figures provide additional emphatic evidence of the powerful potential of long-distance train service to attract passengers.
		In any case, both categories experienced significant ridership increases which contributed to an overall increase in Amtrak ridership of 2.7% in the last fiscal year.
		Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited rolls through New York State, May 2003.
	www.lightrailnow.org /facts/fa_amtrak-003.htm (107 words)

	Re: Amtrak Clocker #622
		Posted by Fred G on Fri Mar 18 06:47:22 2005, in response to Amtrak Clocker #622, posted by chuchubob on Thu Mar 17 22:11:33 2005.
		Re: Amtrak Clocker #622 - chuchubob - Fri Mar 18 07:24:46 2005
		Re: Amtrak Clocker #622 - BIE - Fri Mar 18 09:47:38 2005
	www.subchat.com /read.asp?Id=64905 (74 words)

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	www.amtraktrains.com /routes.php?route=622 (44 words)

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