| This wasn't the usual daily chaos of ScotRail, this was an Amtrak express leaving Penn Station. |
| When most of the railroads turned over the operation of their passenger trains to Amtrak back in 1971, The Southern, and Rio Grande refused. |
| On Monday morning, I added the Sacramento-San Jose Amtrak express to my list of trains which I've boarded barely before they left the platform. |
| He updated Amtrak information at the station, including a new menu for the Texas Eagle dining cars. |
| Amtrak logged a record 24 million passengers last year and ridership jumped 80 percent during the Thanksgiving holiday. |
| Created in 1971 in response to the demise of passenger trains run by private railroads, Amtrak has never shown a profit. |
