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Officials and rail advocates push for daily service on Sunset Ltd route

August 21st, 2020
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]August 21, 2020 - TRA Newswire - The largest passenger rail advocacy group, Rail Passengers Association, has started a campaign to take Amtrak's Sunset Limited cross-country service from 3 days a week to daily service across Texas and other Southwest U.S....

Bexar County Commissioners vote to increase Amtrak train routes

October 2nd, 2019
October 2, 2019 - kens5.com - On Tuesday, Bexar County Commissioners (San Antonio) took their first step to increase Amtrak's Sunset Limited Routes, out of the Sunset Station downtown. Currently, Amtrak serves seven areas in Texas three times a week: El Paso,...

San Antonio joins chorus for daily cross-country Sunset Limited rail service

December 22nd, 2018
December 22, 2018 - TRA Newswire - The San Antonio city council has joined a list of cities across the southern tier states supporting a call for daily service by Amtrak's Sunset Limited, which now only runs tri-weekly through Texas and...

CSX to sell rail line between Pensacola and Jacksonville - what's it mean for restoring Gulf Coast passenger service?

November 18th, 2018
November 15, 2018 - pnj.com - Railroad giant CSX plans to sell 373 miles of track between Pensacola and Jacksonville to Florida Gulf and Atlantic Railroad, a subsidiary of Boca Raton-based Rail USA. The deal was made public as part of a filing with...

Houston Mayor says more Amtrak service needed

September 18th, 2018
September 18, 2018 - Exclusive to TRA - In a letter to Amtrak President Richard Anderson, the Mayor of Houston said he supports increased service of the now tri-weekly Sunset Limited train that stops in the city. Mayor Sylvester Turner indicated he...

Tracks open! Amtrak's Sunset Limited restarts service after Harvey's Gulf Coast flooding

September 8th, 2017
September 8, 2017 - TRA Newswire - Amtrak's Sunset Limited service through Houston and Beaumont, a casualty of Hurricane Harvey's catastrophic flooding, restarts service next week. The tri-weekly passenger train service runs on two host railroads, Union Pacific and BNSF Railway. Tracks...

Amtrak expands "Bikes on Board" to Texas Eagle & Sunset service

September 23rd, 2016
September 22, 2016 - ProgressiveRailroading.com Amtrak is permitting riders to bring bicycles on trains along several additional national routes, the passenger railroad announced yesterday. The railroad's train-side check-in bicycle service has been expanded to the following routes: Cardinal, Sunset Limited, California Zephyr,...

AMTRAK western long distance trains at the end of 2015; a positive report

December 19th, 2015
December 19, 2015 - Commentary by Russ Jackson / RailPAC Here we are, Christmastime 2015, and lo and behold the Amtrak long distance trains continue to roll and to some extent thrive despite the negative publicity that they are "money losers." ...

Wicker Questions Railroad Administrator on Restoring Gulf Coast Rail Service

September 20th, 2015
WASHINGTON – Special to TRA - September 17, 2015 U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today questioned Acting Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Sarah Feinberg, about the agency’s efforts to...

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