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AAR CORP. 1100 North Wood Dale Road, Wood Dale, IL 60191 630-227-2000 * www.aarcorp.com www.facebook.com/aarcorp * @aarcorp * www.linkedin.com/company/aar-corp Marcus Jadotte, Vice President, Public Affairs 202-431-8752 * marcus.jadotte@aarcorp.com Lee Krantz, [...]

Amtrak has been granted billions of dollars in federal subsidies since 1971. As a monopoly, its unit costs have been exempt from the competition that has improved the performance of [...]

Convening in washington at 8 a.m. on December 13, 1994, Amtrak's nine directors met to officially sanction a new direction for the financially strapped passenger carrier. The board knew the […]

DESPITE GOOD NEWS on the equipment front--Superliner II passenger cars and a fleet of new GE Genesis locomotives in 1994, an order for 36 Viewliner sleepers and more Superliners in […]

Inadequate funding, a weak management structure, host-railroad relations--these are problems Amtrak must surmount if it is to be a symbol of pride, not embarrassment. Thomas M. Downs has taken the […]

Amtrak and American Airlines both had bad weeks. Match the statement with the troubled transportation company. 1. 'Got an unusual one for you. Passenger seats rows 12D, E, and F, [...]

Amtrak and the private car owners pull off the train of the year THE CHILL MOUNTAIN AIR was still. A three-quarter moon cast stark shadows of the tall pines on […]

Before we start on Amtrak, I should confess a longstanding bias. I have been praising trains for as long as I have been speaking. In March 1954, at the age [...]

Amtrak may finally be restructured. That does not guarantee a good service AMTRAK'S enemies have wanted to rip apart America's loss-making national railway company for years. Now may be the [...]

Amtrak's Acela service has taken a public relations beating in recent weeks. On July 15th, an Acela Regional train traveling, from Washington, D.C., to Boston reportedly got stuck on the [...]

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y Mineta stated at a recent news conference that he does not believe Amtrak will meet its 2003 Congressional deadline for operational self-sufficiency. Suggesting possible [...]

Health and Human Services Secretary, Tommy G. Thompson, announced his resignation on May 11 from Amtrak's board. Thompson officially stepped down and relinquish his duties as chair after the board's [...]

A pressing need for expensive safety improvements to Amtrak tunnels connecting to New York's Pennsylvania Station could push the station's $800 million rehabilitation off track. Amtrak is planning to ask [...]

Following the initial success of the Quiet Car, Amtrak added two more to the Metroliner out of both Washington and New York. Located in the first Business Class car behind [...]

Amid derailments, delays, maintenance problems and shoddy service, Amtrak just keeps chugging along, all the while gobbling up public monies at an astounding rate. After waiting patiently for three-and-a-half hours [...]

After months of waiting and countless delays, Amtrak finally launched Acela Express on Nov. 16. Acela, heralded as the first high-speed rail service in North America, travels across the Northeast [...]

Alstom Transportation, Inc. offered testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight recently, in support of HR 3700, the High Speed Rail Investment Act. Tim Gillespie testified [...]

A tradition worth preserving, and a marketable lesson for Amtrak. North American Amtrak passengers can only wish for the gourmet dining experience European riders have long enjoyed aboard Swiss Federal [...]

Amtrak sends Congress Northeast plan The needs of the south end of the Northeast Corridor are detailed in a 25-year plan Amtrak sent to Congress in February. The south end [...]

Acela begins operations Amtrak's new all-electric, high-speed Acela Regional service has begun operating between Boston, New York and Washington. The trains, which consist of two locomotives, a business class car, [...]

Last month, Amtrak opened a 48,000-square-foot, $3.25-million mail and express facility in Chicago along the South Branch of the Chicago River, near Roosevelt Road. The facility includes high-level platforms with [...]

FLORIDA EAST COAST was once a proud partner in bringing a parade of glistening streamliners like the Champion, Florida Special, and City of Miami down its immaculate double track from [...]

Victory (?) in Maine: The Surface Transportation Board on October 22 sided with Amtrak, not track owner Guilford, in deciding that Amtrak may operate its planned Boston-Portland (Maine) service at [...]

Amtrak's last two operating FL9's, 485 and 486, replaced by dual-mode GE units between New York and Albany, have been reassigned to work-train duty out of New Haven to Boston [...]

Amtrak's Mail and Express business may have a shorter name by the end of the year. Amtrak is in the midst of an 'exhaustive study' of its express program that [...]

In response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Amtrak announced additional identification and ticket purchase requirements. Guests now boarding at any station between Washington, D.C. and Boston will be required [...]

Amtrak has in the Northend Electrification Project (NEP) electrified the New Haven to Boston line with a voltage of 25 kV AC. A fully-electrified service is now provided in the [...]

Like the proverbial turtle's race against the hare, the odds against Amtrak have been tremendous. Throughout its troubled 13-year history, the rail-passenger system has derailed more than a few times. [...]

Activity at the National Railroad Passenger Corporation has picked up in recent months, and to help better understand how all of these new projects and initiatives fit into Amtrak's big [...]

Tom downs has an interesting task. He already runs the world's most profitable (read: least subsidized) national rail passenger system, which is even more remarkable when you consider that the […]