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Rail Can Ease The World’s Climate Crisis

FRA Reports How Passenger Rail Measures Up

Amtrak Gulf Motion: No Bad-Faith Mediation, Please

Ugly Gulf Coast Portent From STB Service Failures Hearing?

Amtrak Kicks Off Food & Beverage Working Group With RPA Staff

FRA Kicks Off Corridor ID Program, Proposals Expected This Year

Rail Passengers Attends Amtrak ‘Soft Mockup’ Event

California HSR Clears Central Valley to Silicon Valley

The Next Threat to Trains: A Tiny Virus and A Huge Land War

Florida Judge Strikes Down Federal Mask Requirement for Trains

I Guess Money Really Does Talk

Are Trains Getting Worse? Sadly, Yes They Are

Amtrak Send Ambitious FY23 Grant Request to Congress

Virginia (Still) Needs Your Help!

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

"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