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	Amtrak Crescent
		The Crescent has a rich history that goes back to 1925, when the train was inaugurated by Southern Railway.
		It was named after the "Crescent City" -- New Orleans -- and originally carried passengers from there to Montgomeery, Alabama.
		In 1970, Southern Railway combined the Crescent with the Southerner to form the Southern Crescent.
	www.trainweb.com /routes/route_19/rg_19.htm (626 words)

	Crescent (Amtrak) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Crescent is a passenger train operated by Amtrak in the eastern part of the United States.
		Today's Southern Crescent is the lineal descendant of the "Washington and Southwestern Vestibuled Limited," inaugurated in January, 1891, by the Richmond and Danville Railroad along the "Piedmont Air Line Route." This Washington-Atlanta train was soon nicknamed the "Vestibule" because it was the first all-year train with vestibuled equipment operating in the South.
		The Southern Crescent was operated by the a predecessor of Norfolk Southern, between Washington, DC's Union Station and New Orleans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crescent_(Amtrak) (749 words)

	Crescent Jewelers Resources & Information - crescent jewelers
		A crescent is the shape produced when from a circular disk the disk of a circle which is a little smaller and tangent on the inside to the larger circle, is cut.
		The crescent used to be a symbol of the Byzantine Empire.
		The crescent symbol is also used to represent the alchemical usage of silver and, by inference, can also be used to represent qualities that silver possesses.
	www.bizhisto.com /Biz-Retail-Companies-C/Crescent-Jewelers.html (418 words)

	Amtrak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The members of Amtrak's board of directors are appointed by the President of the United States, and are subject to confirmation by the United States Senate.
		Amtrak's old logo from 1971 to 2000, often called the "pointless arrow" or, less often but officially by Amtrak, the "inverted arrow." On July 6, 2000 Amtrak unveiled "...a new logo whose shape and suggestion of movement convey the comfort and uniqueness of the rail experience.
		Amtrak was established to relieve railroads of their federally mandated responsibility to transport passengers as a priority over freight.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amtrak (6346 words)

	Amtrak, Southern agree on Crescent takeover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Amtrak and Southern Railway have reached agreement for Amtrak to take over operation of the Southern Crescent passenger service on February 1.
		Boyd said that initial changes in the Crescent's operation and staffing would be minimal and that the train would continue to operate for the present with Southern locomotives, cars and employees.
		The Southern Crescent, one of America's most historic trains, was the only overnight luxury train in the nation that was not either discontinued or taken over by Amtrak when it began operations on May 1, 1971.
	southern.railfan.net /ties/1979/79-1/amtrak.html (556 words)

	CNN.com - Amtrak derailment kills 6 in Florida - April 19, 2002
		Amtrak train No. 52 -- the Auto Train from Sanford, Florida, near Orlando, to Lorton, Virginia, outside Washington -- careened off the track Thursday around 5:08 p.m.
		Amtrak is still investigating the cause of the crash, spokeswoman Kajal Jhaveri said.
		Amtrak has established a toll-free number -- 1-800-523-9101 -- through which friends and family of passengers on the train can get information about the crash.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/US/04/18/amtrak.derailment (498 words)

	DART.org - DART News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Amtrak and the Kansas City Southern are working together to secure funding for necessary track infrastructure upgrades and repairs on portions of its railroad.
		Upon arrival in Meridian, the Crescent will be divided into two trains with one train, the Crescent, continuing southbound to New Orleans and the other train, the Crescent Star, heading west to Dallas/Ft. Worth along the new route.
		Building on this momentum, Amtrak last week announced a bold 20-year capital investment plan which will help relieve the nation’s chronic highway and airport congestion, modernize and expand the current national system and accelerate plans for high-speed rail service in busy corridors throughout the country.
	www.dart.org /news.asp?ID=198 (670 words)

	GARP Newsletter, June, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Amtrak has released ridership figures for the first half of fiscal 2006, which began in October, just one month after Hurricane Katrina devastated the New Orleans end of the Crescent's route.
		The Crescent resumed operations to the Louisiana city on Oct. 9, but with many of region's former residents scattered across the country and New Orleans tourism virtually shut down, initial patronage was light.
		Amtrak says those cancellations alone reduced ticket revenues by $100,000, and that was just the proverbial tip of the iceberg.
	www.trainweb.org /garp/news0606.html (2443 words)

	Crescent (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crescent Engineering College, a private engineering college in Chennai (Madras), India
		The Crescent (Dallas), an ornate office tower in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas, Texas (USA)
		"Crescent" is the literal translation of croissant - a popular buttery French bread in the shape of a crescent moon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crescent_(disambiguation) (128 words)

	UTU: News
		It would split Amtrak into three entities: a private passenger rail company operating under contract with states, a private rail company to maintain and operate the infrastructure within the Northeast corridor, and a national rail company, called Amtrak, which would continue as a federal corporation.
		Critics of the legislation say it would eventually kill Amtrak and would be the death of America's long-haul trains such as the Crescent, because it requires states to enter into multi-state compacts.
		Rutter was adamant that the legislation is not an attempt to dismantle Amtrak.
	www.utu.org /worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=8676 (784 words)

	UTU: News
		Amtrak trains carried a total of 25,374,998 passengers during fiscal 2005, which ended Sept. 30.
		The picture was not, however, quite as positive in eastern Georgia, and the reason is clear: patronage on Amtrak's east coast trains, which serve Savannah and Jesup, suffered as a result of Amtrak's decision one year ago to cut the New York-Miami Palmetto back to a New York-Savannah run.
		Amtrak's remaining New York-Miami runs, the Silver Meteor and the Silver Star, picked up much, but not all of the slack, recording respective ridership gains of 35.6% and 0.6%.
	www.utu.org /worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=24584 (238 words)

	crescent in Tool sets at Tool.Coderdir.com. Page 1
		In art and symbolism, a crescent is generally the shape produced when a circular disk has a segment...
		In astronomy, a crescent is the shape that the lit side of...
		Crescent is a character in the 25-year-old fantasy series known as ElfQuest, created by Wendy and Richard...
	tool.coderdir.com /Tool%20sets/crescent (326 words)

	Crescent (Amtrak) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Before Amtrak took over the route, a train called the Southern Crescent was operated by the Southern Railway, a predecessor of the Norfolk Southern.
		Southern Railway did not join Amtrak when it was created in 1971, but continued to operate the Crescent independently.
		The Southern Crescent became the last privately operated, long-distance passenger service in the United States.
	www.gogog.com /project/wikipedia/index.php/Crescent_(Amtrak) (214 words)

	Southern Crescent takes sentimental journey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Amtrak now operates the train as the Amtrak Crescent daily between the nation's capital and New Orleans as part of its government-subsidized national passenger network.
		At a brief trackside ceremony, there was an exchange of flags between representatives of Southern and Amtrak symbolizing the transfer of responsibility for operation of the train.
		The Southern Crescent was a lineal descendant of a passenger train between Washington and New Orleans that was inaugurated in 1891 by the Richmond and Danville Railroad that in 1894 became Southern Railway.
	southern.railfan.net /ties/1979/79-3/cresc.html (819 words)

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		But Amtrak doesn't even run in areas like the western states of Wyoming and South Dakota, where the population is too sparse to make running a train profitable.
		But as late as 2002, when Amtrak was supposed to be reaching financial independence, it was instead drawing close to bankruptcy, with accounting books in a shambles and cars and track in disrepair.
		It issued Amtrak an emergency loan that year and later appropriated new funds for the rail system.
	www.help-for-you.com /news/Mar2004/scripts/22e80513.html (1297 words)

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		We liked to see "the Crescent, Amtrak's delightful 1,380 mile route between New York and New Orleans, through the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Heart of Dixie...".
		Amtrak promised us a rail pass, that would give us unlimited mileage in the eastern part of USA for 199 $ per person.
		I hope that this long letter would give Amtrak some ideas, what to do to rise their standards, and help travellers to be prepared for some unhappy events.
	www.trainnet.org /Libraries/Lib003/UNHAMT.TXT (1326 words)

	My Trip to Lynchburg
		Train #19, the Southern Crescent was even into The early years of Amtrak one of only TWO trains not taken over by Amtrak.
		Amtrak wisely restored the place to its original splendor, instead of letting a private developer wreck the place as was done to Pennsylvania Station New York by the Madison Square Garden folks.
		The Crescent is one of only a few long-haul trains that still carry a FULL diner [where meals are prepared and served on board] As is the case on most Amtrak trains today, the menu consisted of specialty dishes from places along the route of the train.
	www.thorpefamily.us /lynchburg.htm (3835 words)

	Business - The Clarion-Ledger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		WASHINGTON —; A new fight over Amtrak's future is expected when Congress returns from its August recess, with President Bush on one side and Mississippi Republican Trent Lott on the other.
		Conservatives who have wanted to privatize Amtrak for years like the plan, but passenger rail supporters say it would hurt rural areas such as Mississippi that are served by unpro- fitable, long-distance rail lines.
		Under Bush's plan, all other Amtrak lines would be up for bid to companies that the administration says could operate the trains with smaller subsidies.
	www.clarionledger.com /news/0308/17/b01.html (758 words)

	Regina Amtrak Communications Fastball Club: News Wire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Amtrak in the bottom of the 1st inning, answered with a leadoff homerun by Craig Istace, reducing Bruno's lead to 3-1.
		Amtrak will be playing in the most important tournament of the year this weekend (Saturday, July 22 and Sunday July 23) in Moose Jaw - the Saskatchewan Senior Mens Open Fastball Championships.
		Amtrak Communications came up with a 10-1 win versus Silver Screen in their first game of the 2004 Season (Saturday, May 8th).
	eteamz.active.com /amtrakfastball/news/index.cfm (1748 words)

	The Anniston Star - Locals rely on Amtrak service in Anniston
		Buse, 74, was at Anniston's Fourth Street railroad depot Wednesday to board Amtrak's Crescent for what's usually an annual pilgrimage to visit her daughter, three grandchildren, five grandchildren and other New Jersey kin.
		She had faith because her $205 senior's citizen discount ticket has her returning home via the Crescent in mid-July - long after the busy Fourth of July holiday that Amtrak threatened Tuesday might be its last hurrah without federal funds.
		The Crescent's swing through Washington, one of the last stops before New Jersey, brings her close enough in to do a little sightseeing in the nation's capital.
	www.annistonstar.com /news/2002/as-anniston-0628-bsutley-2f27x4921.htm (390 words)

	North American Passenger Rail Update
		The Crescent is a long-distance train that travels daily between New York and New Orleans.
		Created by the newly formed Crescent Promotional Office (CPO), a travel advocate for the Amtrak Crescent, and with the help of convention and visitors bureaus and chambers along the Crescent's route, the web site offers a variety of information in addition to that found on the national Amtrak site.
		Another feature of the Amtrak Crescent web site is the Crescent Diary, which affords passengers an opportunity to write about their experiences on the train.
	www.utu.org /DEPTS/PR-DEPT/NEWS/NEWS2000/041200-1.htm (1552 words)

	Rivanna Chapter, NRHS Apri Special Excursion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Amtrak employees or other authorized carrier representatives may remove such a passenger from the train at any inhabited place, as necessary under the circumstances, for any of the above reasons.
		Amtrak reserves the right, whenever operating conditions require, to transfer passengers from one car or train to another en route.
		When purchased through either Amtrak's advance payment or prepaid programs, tickets are considered "paid for" and subject to the refund policies of any component rail fare, passenger type discount, and/or promotional discount, even if the actual tickets have not yet been printed.
	home.earthlink.net /~kjmoss_remote/NRHS/april_trip.htm (1485 words)

	crescent - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Crescent, crescent : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
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	www.onelook.com /?w=crescent (280 words)

	staugustine.com: Top Stories: Amtrak Derailment
		CRESCENT CITY -- Within a mile or two of the April 18 Amtrak Auto Train wreck is the unmarked site of another train wreck, one that left this south Putnam County area in despair nearly 70 years ago.
		CRESCENT CITY -- Investigators searching for the cause of the deadly Amtrak Auto Train derailment are focused on the tracks, the National Transportation Safety Board said Saturday.
		CRESCENT CITY -- The engineer of the doomed Amtrak Auto Train slammed on the emergency brakes Thursday when he saw the tracks ahead were misaligned, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
	www.staugustine.com /pageone/derailment.shtml (1338 words)

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