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Gulf Coast Week One: RTC Study Quality, Questioning, Under Fire

New RPA Poll: Bipartisan Support for More Rail Spending

States Prepare for New Federal Rail Funding

April Gulf Hearing to Tackle Bridges, Capital Needs

Congress Passes FY22 Budget, Launches New Rail Programs

Rail Passengers Files Comments on Corridor ID Program

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Some Trains Begin to Return To Daily Service

Amtrak Service Updates | March 3rd, 2022

We Stood Up For Gulf Coast Restoration: STB Hearing Days

New Equipment Rolling Out Across Midwest, LDR

January On-Time Performance: Not There Yet

The Trouble with Winning: CSX and Gulf Coast

Transit Equity Day

Why U.S. Freight Trains Are So Much Better Than Passenger Rail

Fixing Amtrak-State Relations Strained by Section 209

DOT to STB: Order Gulf Coast Service Restored

"The support from the Rail Passengers Association, and from all of you individually, has been incredibly important to Amtrak throughout our history and especially so during the last trying year."

Bill Flynn, Amtrak CEO
April 19, 2021, speaking to attendees at the Rail Passengers Virtual Spring Advocacy Conference