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The latest passenger rail and transit news

High Speed Rail Returns to State of the Union

19th Annual Dr. Gary Burch Memorial Award

NARP Members Making Things Better for Passengers in Michigan

NARP Members Now Save 20% on Alaska Railroad Train Fares!

Revised NARP-Midwest HSR White Paper Depicts Value of National Network Trains

Streetsblog "Keeping CNN Honest" -- You Can Too!

World Bank Report a Boost for Passenger Train Investment

“Praising and Pushing” for a Rejuvenated Chicago-St. Louis Corridor

NARP responds to Anderson Cooper's attack on trains

Small Communities Rally Around Southwest Chief

Trainsforming America: the transformative power of trains, from a passenger's point of view

Senator Daniel K. Inouye, 1924 - 2012

NARP takes part in 10th Annual New York Times Travel Show

Transportation Secretary fields questions on high speed rail

Throughout American passenger train history, a theme emerges

NPR report on oilfield workers’ Amtrak use was timely, but biased

A locomotive’s-eye view up the East Coast

Amtrak reorganization scrutinized by House Transportation Committee

"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