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Amtrak Ridership Shrinks, But It's Still Second-Best Year For Railroad

AP | JOAN LOWY, Associated Press Writer | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON (AP)-- Amtrak said Monday its ridership dropped by more than a million passengers in the past year, still the second-highest year in the ra...

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Amtrak Ridership Surges

Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 11.13.2008 | Chicago

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Amtrak ridership topped 1 million passengers in the past year for the first time in at least three decades on routes between Chicago and Downstate cit...

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Amtrak Gets Federal Money For Chicago Routes

Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 10.31.2008 | Chicago

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Amtrak trains will be able to travel as fast as 110 m.p.h. within about a year on portions of routes from Chicago to St. Louis and Chicago to Milwauke...

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Will America Wake Up to Rail Travel?

Jim Robbins | Posted 07.19.2008 | Living

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Jim Robbins

I had forgotten what travel by rail was like, and after decades of flying around the country and the world, I found it an immense pleasure even though our passenger trains lag behind those of much of the world.

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Amtrak Train Collides With Freight Train Outside Chicago

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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An Amtrak passenger train collided with a freight train Friday on the south side of the city, fire officials said. Approximately 150 passengers were ...

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