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	Dan Chazin's Trip on the Amtrak Silver Star / Palmetto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Miami Amtrak station, built in the 1970s to replace a downtown Miami station of the Seaboard Air Line, is built in the Amshack architectural style.
		But I was assured by an Amtrak employee that our train would consist of a fresh set of equipment taken from the yard, and that we would depart promptly at 3:00 p.m.
		Although a number of Amtrak employees were sitting in the lounge car near me, no one objected to the fact that I had brought my own personal food to the lounge car (which is sometimes alleged to violate FDA regulations).
	www.trainweb.com /travelogues/dchazin/2004a21a/2004a28a.html (9257 words)

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		Amtrak's four-member board of directors had a telephone conference call meeting Tuesday to get an update on the Acela status and to discuss a financing plan for the railroad.
		Amtrak's expiring board missed an opportunity to put the system on a market-based reform path when it had an opportunity in May of last year to appoint a reform-minded CEO when the previous one resigned.
		Further, Amtrak's new management made it clear that it had little interest in fundamental, market-based reform, and is reluctant to cut back or eliminate parts of its far-flung and underused route system, despite the fact that every single one loses money, and some lose substantially more than others.
	www.lycos.com /info/amtrak--amtrak-board.html (546 words)

	The Business Report & Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Amtrak is celebrating its 34th year of operation in Savannah, but there's some question as to how many more years it will provide service.
		For Savannah, a city steeped in the tradition of the railroad, it would be a loss from a nostalgic as well as economic standpoint, although local tourism officials say they don't chart the number of people who travel to and from the city by train.
		It turned back an amendment by a vote of 337-84-18 to cut 10 percent of all Amtrak funding from the fiscal 1995 appropriations bill as well as an amendment to cut $320 million from Amtrak funding in fiscal 2004 appropriations bill and give it to highways by a vote of 322-90-22.
	www.savannahbusiness.com /main.asp?SectionID=29&articleid=2682 (866 words)

	This Week at Amtrak 2007-01-26 at United Rail Passenger Alliance
		Amtrak’s new president wants to upgrade the passenger railroad’s image and the tracks it shares with the nation’s increasingly busy freight rail carriers, and he expects the federal government to help.
		Amtrak is criticized for the losses in the long-distance routes, but if those routes were eliminated, they would be very hard to re-establish, Kummant said.
		Amtrak’s mission is to operate a healthy national trains system, not a disjointed series of corridors.
	www.unitedrail.org /2007/01/27/this-week-at-amtrak-2007-01-26 (3462 words)

	GARP Newsletter, April, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Amtrak Board's official request is for about $1.6 billion, but board members also are seeking additional funding for "optional" projects, bringing the total request to almost $1.9 billion, more than double the President's figure.
		But it's also clear that many critics are willing to settle for a "rump" Amtrak that serves only the Northeast, the Midwest and the West Coast, and to accomplish that, they are targeting the long-distance overnight trains that serve Georgia and dozens of other states.
		Amtrak's Crescent is again operating on its full New York-Atlanta-New Orleans route every day, following the early completion of a Norfolk Southern trackwork project that forced Amtrak to bus passengers between Atlanta and New Orleans for several days last month...
	www.trainweb.org /garp/news0406.html (2597 words)

	UTU: News
		As investigators for Amtrak, the Federal Railroad Administration and National Transportation Safety Board began investigating the collision, Cliff Black, an Amtrak spokesman, acknowledged that the Maryland Rail Commuter train had the right-of-way as it was pulling away from the downtown rail station.
		Amtrak's northbound Miami-to-New York Palmetto train, including two engines, eight passenger cars and three freight cars, was emerging from a tunnel and entering the same middle track on which the MARC train was moving.
		Meanwhile, Amtrak said its crews were working through the night at the scene expected to resume service between Washington and Baltimore this morning.
	www.utu.org /worksite/print_news.cfm?ArticleID=2082 (876 words)

	TRAINS Magazine - Railroad News, Web Cam, Railroading Video - Images of Amtrak
		Even before he joined Amtrak as a locomotive engineer in 1986, Doug Riddell had been operating the corporation's passenger trains under contract as a Seaboard Coast Line engineer, and had been photographing their colorful locomotives and consists in and around his native Virginia since Amtrak's inception in 1971.
		Amtrak's second batch of derailment-prone EMD SDP40Fs were brand new when engine 638 posed with the northbound Silver Star during a crew change at the old Seaboard station in Raleigh, N.C., on September 15, 1974.
		Amtrak moved to the ex-Southern Railway Raleigh depot in October 1986.
	www.trains.com /trn/print.aspx?c=a&id=520 (515 words)

	Amtrak Florida
		DeLand (Amtrak station) - The DeLand, Florida Amtrak station is located several miles west of downtown DeLand, at the location formerly known as DeLand Junction.
		Palmetto (Amtrak) - The Palmetto is a 829-mile (1334 km) passenger train service operated by Amtrak from New York City south to Savannah, Georgia via the Northeast Corridor to Washington, DC, then via Richmond, Virginia, Fayetteville, North Carolina and Charleston, South Carolina.
		The Palmetto is a shorter version of the Silver Meteor, which continues south to Miami, Florida.
	www.wm2001.com /amtrakflorida.html (573 words)

	[il-talk] Amtrak gets out of the mail business and some other changes there
		For many Amtrak customers, this will mean an improvement in the schedule of their trains, while two Amtrak services that were primarily extended to accommodate mail and express business are being reduced or eliminated.
		Amtrak's mail and express business was marginal and did not justify the toll it took on passenger operations.
		Amtrak is making arrangements to dispose of the specialized mail and express handling equipment and the passenger railroad will also reduce the number of locomotives it needs by shortening trains to and from Chicago.
	www.nfbnet.org /pipermail/il-talk/2004-September/001754.html (1185 words)

	S. Florida Amtrak service sliced [Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers]
		Amtrak officials say the cutbacks are part of a restructuring that will provide the state with more convenient schedules and improved service.
		Amtrak's Palmetto train from New York, which ran all the way to Miami until Monday, now ends in Savannah, Ga.
		Amtrak ridership at the Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach stations combined was down about 11 percent in fiscal 2003 compared with 2000.
	www.ble.org /pr/news/headline.asp?id=11920 (453 words)

	Rail Travel Center Springtime in the Ozarks Tour 2005
		Amtrak did say the $900 million requested by President Bush for FY 2004 would lead to a shutdown, so it is Chairman Istook who has the credibility problem.
		Amtrak trains would likely get a lower priority and be charged an "access fee" to use the corridor, probably resulting in slower schedules and a higher cost, if the administration's plan is implemented.
		Furthermore, most Amtrak route miles are on tracks whose owners, the private freight railroads, do not want to run their own passenger trains and have a top priority of opposing legislation to give Amtrak's rights (for track access at reasonable cost) to any other entity.
	www.railtravelcenter.com /Amtrakbudget.htm (13056 words)

	Destination : Freedom Newsletter - June 24, 2002
		Amtrak's Palmetto had two engines, eight coaches and three mail cars, and was emerging from a tunnel and entering the same middle track on which the MARC train was moving.
		Amtrak officials promised to address the bridge opening problems and the group's complaint about rude and uncooperative bridge operators, stated the newspaper; however, they also outlined a major obstacle: some of the bridges in the region are old and need to be replaced.
		Amtrak officials told the group there is money in the Amtrak reauthorization bills before Congress to begin the design and replacement of the Niantic and Thames river bridges, but completion of the projects would be several years away even if the projects are funded each year.
	www.nationalcorridors.org /df/df06242002.shtml (7917 words)

	USATODAY.com - House provides $1.2 billion for Amtrak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But the amount the House budgeted is far short of the $1.8 billion Amtrak was seeking, and Amtrak still faces a funding battle in the Senate.
		Amtrak spokesman Cliff Black declined to say whether Amtrak could survive on $1.2 billion.
		Amtrak refuses to take a good hard look at the facts," he said.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-06-29-amtrak_x.htm?csp=34 (590 words)

	Destination : Freedom Newsletter - February 2, 2004
		Amtrak wanted $1.8 billion for the current year, which ultimately was cut back to $1.22 billion, or $1.32 billion if you factor in a deferral on a $100 million USDOT loan to Amtrak a couple of years ago to avoid a shutdown.
		Amtrak’s “overall assessment” will focus on what it can do with “a lower appropriation this year” as well as what its “needs are going to be going forward,” to quote Stessel.
		Amtrak said passengers who held tickets for trains that would not operate that day would be “accommodated on the next available train, usually within 60 to 90 minutes.
	www.nationalcorridors.org /df/df02022004.shtml (15954 words)

	CAPT/NARP Meeting Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Amtrak 90 arrives in Fayetteville at the historic Atlantic Coast Line station (c.1911).
		North Carolina's Carolinian (Amtrak 80) boards passengers at the historic Rocky Mount Amtrak (ACL) station which recently underwent an $11.5 million restoration as part of the NCDOT's statewide station upgrade program.
		The Amtrak Station sits on CSX Transportation's busy north-south mainline which generally handles about 40 trains per day, including the famous Tropicana "Orange Juice Train" and Amtrak's premier AutoTrain.
	www.trainweb.org /capt/travel2.htm (1243 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)

	Power outlets in Amtrak coach class? \| Ask MetaFilter
		Amtrak question: I'm going to be travelling from NYC to Richmond (and back) on the Palmetto line and need to know if there are any outlets in the coach class seats.
		From Amtrak's web site: "In most Amtrak trains, First Class and Business Class seats and sleepers have standard 110-volt electrical power outlets available to supply power for electronic devices.
		I take Amtrak coach class between NY and Boston, and there are typically two outlets for each row of seats, one under each window.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/26116 (666 words)

	In the Shadow of Mt. Hollywood
		Amtrak has a whole bunch of jerks who wear these funny clothes and hats and shit, and some of them are asleep and shit, but somebody else pays for all that.
		Amtrak is, for starters, not really a rational economic actor, because from all evidence, Amtrak does not appear to be trying to “maximize profit”, which is the assumption the definition makes that underlies its discussion of marginal benefit.
		Amtrak finally eliminated the Oakland coach a few years ago due to the disastrous decline of the LA-Seattle train, but they never changed the order of how they took dinner reservations.
	mthollywood.blogspot.com /2006_11_01_archive.html (10838 words)

	Amtrak pushes business class - Tampa Bay Business Journal:
		TAMPA —; Amtrak is trying to convince business travelers to take a train.
		The overall Palmetto route —; from New York to Miami —; serviced 12,400 business-class passengers from April, when the service was introduced, through August, Riefs said.
		Amtrak also provides a business class on the Carolinian, which runs from New York to Charlotte, N.C. The service has proved more popular on that route.
	tampabay.bizjournals.com /tampabay/stories/2002/09/23/story4.html (561 words)

	Town of Selma -- Selma Union Depot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Selma Union Depot is now serving passengers riding Amtrak's daily Carolinian between New York City and Charlotte and Amtrak's daily Palmetto that runs between New York City and Savannah.
		The vacant building was saved when the Town of Selma objected and worked out a plan to accept title to the property and relieve the railroads of liability concerns.
		service to Selma with the creation of Amtrak in 1971, Union Depot was temporarily opened in July 1976 as a museum and focal point of Selma's first celebration of "Railroad Days" as part of the nation's Bicentennial.
	www.selma-nc.com /index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={943FE022-5585-4EB3-AF4D-CAB155660007} (320 words)

	NCDOT Rail Division > News
		WASHINGTON - To accommodate upcoming maintenance work on tracks owned by CSX Railroad, Amtrak is temporarily changing schedules for some trains operating in the Southeastern United States from March 28 to June 23, 2005.
		The temporary schedule change will require Amtrak to provide bus service for Palmetto (trains #89, 90) and Carolinian (trains #79, 80) passengers between Rocky Mount NC and Richmond VA four days a week (Monday - Thursday) during the track work.
		Amtrak provides intercity passenger rail service to more than 500 destinations in 46 states on a 22,000-mile route system.
	www.bytrain.org /redbarinfo/news/2005releases/CSXtrackwork.html (489 words)

	Hilton Head Golf Resort, Hilton Head SC Golf - Palmetto Dunes
		Limousine, shuttle and taxi service is available, and all major car rental agencies are represented.
		Amtrak serves Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, with several trains daily.
		Hilton Head and Beaufort are on the Intracoastal Waterway and boaters can be serviced at Shelter Cove Marina, adjacent to Palmetto Dunes.
	www.palmettodunes.com /Directions.aspx (134 words)

	Heartland Flyer Oklahoma Amtrak Train Ride
		Amtrak is a registered service mark of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation.
		Amtrak is offering a new sales promotion designed to stimulate travel on Long Distance Trains.
		Amtrak proudly introduces a new way to find routes throughout the Amtrak system.
	www.heartlandflyer.com (930 words)

	The Florida Bullet Train
		Recently Amtrak officials have been talking with transportation officials from the four Gulf Coast states about the states possibly funding a resumption of the Sunset Limited.
		One expansion plan the State is very much in favor of is Amtrak passenger rail down the East Coast of Florida.
		The State would like to see Amtrak negotiate a deal with the Florida East Coast Railway to provide passenger service down the east coast on the Florida East Coast Railway tracks.
	www.floridabullettrain.com /print.php?sid=241&POSTNUKESID=601a759a0498264b3d5030192332e38e (470 words)

	Kingstree Tourism Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Perhaps the biggest glimpse into Kingstree's warm soul is chatting with her residents, all of whom seem eager to bend your ear with news of their little town.
		Marcus at Suit World Outlet, where he doubles as an Amtrak ticket agent and clothes salesman, or a passer-by in the street, Kingstree does not disappoint when it comes to good old-fashioned friendliness.
		Amtrak's Palmetto train No. 90 departs daily from Charleston's station at 9:44 a.m.
	www.williamsburgcountydevelopment.com /newsking.htm (1397 words)

	Amtrak Photo Archive - Other (non-Amtrak) Passenger Cars
		This is at Union Station during the period that Amtrak wanted the railroads business cars painted in Amtrak colors if they wanted to use them on their trains.
		This car and twin sister DandH 41 "Saratoga Inn" were assigned to Amtrak's Adirondack between New York City and Montreal from 1974 - 1977.
		After they were displaced from Amtrak's Adirondack by newer equipment, the two cars were reassigned to commuter bar car service on NY MTA's Hudson and
	www.hebners.net /amtrak/otherPAS.html (462 words)

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