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STB Late Trains Case Should Be Worth the Wait

Rail Coalition Letter to the US House on the FY24 THUD Bill

Action Alert: U.S. House Proposes 80% Cut to Rail!

Enhanced Long-Distance Map Taking Shape

High-Speed Rail Features in FY23 RAISE Grants

Silver Services Latest to Get Traditional Dining

Use This Map to Share the Future Of Rail

Bipartisan Senate Blockade Holds on Amtrak Board Nominees

Learning Lessons as Thwarted I-95 Commuters Try Rail

Amtrak Ready to Make Big Bet On Long-Distance

Hearing Poses Question: Fix-it-first or National-or-nothing?

Rail Passengers Statement for the Record | June 6, 2023

Debt Limit Clears Congress, Transportation Budget Up Next

STB Should Stop Letting Freights Run Out the Clock

Rail Passengers Urge Congress to Maintain Resolve

Railway Safety Act Clears Key Senate Hurdle

F&B Working Group Sets the Table for Better Amtrak Service

Congress Signals Start for Transportation Budget

"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