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GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Another step in the process has been reached to possibly bringing passenger rail back to Northeast Wisconsin for the first...

ASHTABULA — Hopes of riding Amtrak with a stop in Ashtabula have been revived with the awarding of federal funding to study key metrics of the proposed route.

President Joe Biden will announce $8.2 billion in federal funds to build a new high-speed rail system between California and Nevada in addition to nearly a dozen other major new rail projects nationwide.

Funding ambitions for the Northern Lights Express line appear to have been derailed by recent announcement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration has selected four key routes in Ohio as priorities for Amtrak expansion.

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) announced it has awarded $8.2 billion for 10 passenger rail projects.

The potential extension of Amtrak service to new cities, increasing frequency, and creating faster routes, will be part of the study, according to Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner.

The Federal Railroad Administration announced a $500,000 grant award from the Corridor Identification and Development Program to the High Desert Corridor Joint Powers Agency.

Railroad industry news about: Federal Railroad Administration, Corridor Identification and Development Program, Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Program, passenger-rail service expansion, $8.2 billion, grants, federal funding, Amit Bose, President Biden, Amtrak. From the editors of Progressive Railroading Magazine

Governor Laura Kelly announced today that the proposed extension of the Heartland Flyer passenger rail corridor is among the projects selected by the Federal Railroad Administration for inclusion in t