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Amtrak Sets Sights on High Speed Rail Service in St. Louis
Amtrak customers throughout the Midwest are enjoying train rides of more than 100 miles per hour. The same might be true for St. Louis residents in just a few years. Right now, only customers in Indiana and parts of Michigan are enjoying those high speed trips and shorter commutes. Chicago was recently added to the list of stops.
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VIDEO: Amtrak makes railroad history in Kalamazoo
They called it a historical event. State and Federal transportation officials piled off an Amtrak car at the Kalamazoo train station Wednesday, proclaiming it a day to remember. Wolverine 350 was the first train to have made the run from Porter, Indiana to Kalamazoo Michigan at 110 MPH.
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Amtrak trains hit new high speeds in Midwest
Amtrak passenger trains sped up to 110 mph for the first time Tuesday in western Michigan and northern Indiana on two routes serving Chicago, officials announced.
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Amtrak gets OK for 110 mph travel in Michigan, Indiana
Faster Amtrak train service between Detroit and Chicago got a big boost with federal approval for passenger rail to travel at up to 110 m.p.h. on part of the route, officials said today.
Amtrak and the Michigan Department of Transportation announced this afternoon that the Federal Railroad Administration has signed off on boosting speeds on 80 miles of track in southwest Michigan and Indiana to 110 m.p.h., part of a larger effort to shave travel time between the two of the Midwest’s biggest cities and ultimately eliminate bottlenecks with freight rail in the Chicago area.
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Post Link: http://www.freep.com/article/20120207/NEWS06/120207029/Amtrak-Michigan-Indiana
Omaha to Chicago (and possibly through Iowa City) Railway Route Study to Kick off this Month
The National Department of Transportation is teaming up with the Iowa Department of Transportation to Conduct a study of the viability of a passenger rail route through the state.
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Amtrak gets go-ahead to operate 110-mph trains in Michigan
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has given Amtrak and the Michigan Department of Transportation approval to operate passenger trains at speeds up to 110 mph in western Michigan and northern Indiana.
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Construction on Chicago to St. Louis high-speed rail in progress, to finish by 2014
A new high-speed train connecting St. Louis and Chicago will provide students with an alternative way to travel.
The railroad, which is currently under construction, should be complete sometime in 2014, according to officials involved in the project.
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Youth will be served by robust Ohio passenger rail
On Dec. 27, engineer James Shoemaker nudged the throttle of his state-owned, 3,000-horsepower locomotive, City of Asheville, to 79 mph on tracks owned and improved by the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Behind Shoemaker were 286 passengers on the midday Piedmont run that was added in 2010 by NCDOT.
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Post Link: http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/02/youth_will_be_served_by_robust.html
