14 October 2005:Manufactured
Hysteria Is Flying Over Subtle And Proper Changes For The
Northeast Corridor. By Andrew Selden, Vice President, URPA.
12 October 2005:Amtrak to Form Northeast Corridor
Subsidiary discussed in This Week at Amtrak
The Passenger Rail Investment
and Improvement Act of 2005 (S.1516) is discussed in
This Week At Amtrak starting with Volume 2 Number 20. The
full
text of S.1516 is on Thomas at the Library of
Congress.
[Carmichael] quoting from the ARC’s
Action Plan: "The Council’s view is that there should
be a bright future for passenger rail service in
America. But the Council believes that passenger rail
service will never achieve its potential as provided and
managed by Amtrak. A new and different program is needed to
move forward."
October 2005: Amtrak in Perspective
by Bruce Richardson. How did the American passenger train go
from being a showcase for a huge and successful industry to
a welfare stepchild of government?