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Amtrak offering reduced fare for ‘Night Owl’ trains between NYC and DC

Amtrak is now offering new “Night Owl” fares for select trains departing from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m.

Tribune News Service · Mar 27, 2023

California storm kills two as severe weather continues

Latest storm across California come after months of heavy rain and snowfall that battered the western US state.

Al Jazeera · Mar 22, 2023

California faces more flooding after strong Pacific storm

A strong late-season Pacific storm that brought damaging winds and more rain and snow to saturated California is blamed for two deaths

The Independent UK · Mar 22, 2023

‘Railroads have just had too much power,’ Buttigieg says in Kansas City after Ohio train disaster

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Monday pledged to hold American freight railroads to stricter standards in the wake of a train disaster in Ohio last month and Republican criticism of the Biden administration’s response.

Tribune News Service · Feb 28, 2023

Bent track a factor in Montana Amtrak crash that killed 3

Investigators probing a fatal 2021 Amtrak train derailment in Montana say the track had been bent along a curve near the accident site and the problem had been getting worse as freight trains traveled over it before the derailment

The Independent UK · Feb 22, 2023

Plane, motorcade, train: How Joe Biden got to Kyiv in secret

Biden’s ‘inherently risky’ trip to Ukraine took planning and logistics with details known to only a few.

Al Jazeera · Feb 21, 2023

Amtrak is spending billions on new train cars. The Northeast Corridor should be 1st in line, some experts say.

When Amtrak's sleek new Airo train cars roll off the assembly line in 2026, they're headed for the Cascades route in the Pacific Northwest.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Feb 20, 2023

FedEx truck driver dies after train smashes into vehicle and shreds it to pieces

Patrick Metz, 34, died instantly after the FedEx semi-truck he was driving went onto the tracks and was torn apart by a passing Amtrak passenger train in Pleasant Hill, Missouri, US

Daily Mirror · Feb 8, 2023

Biden hails NYC rail tunnel as boon to Amtrak, transit riders

President Joe Biden heralded work on the Gateway tunnel project, a massive rail infrastructure initiative he said would improve travel for workers heading across the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey.

Tribune News Service · Jan 31, 2023

Biden tells heartwarming but repeatedly debunked Amtrak story yet again

President rode trains from Washington DC to Delaware his entire career as US Senator

The Independent UK · Jan 31, 2023