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‘Amtrak Joe’ Marks Amtrak’s 50th Written by David Peter Alan, Contributing Editor
April 30, 2021 was a cool, sunny and windy day in Philadelphia, as President Joe Biden joined Amtrak officials and selected guests to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the day “America’s Railroad” began operations.
It was a day that many rail passengers at the time never thought would come. Amtrak was founded to relieve the private-sector freight railroads of their obligation to run passenger trains, and most of the trains that left their points of origin on April 30, 1971 did not run the following day. At the time, few expected Amtrak to last very long, except, perhaps only on the Northeast Corridor (NEC). But Americans still wanted the few trains that were left and kept using them, so Amtrak is still with us.
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Workers Memorial Day: Nobody knows how many workers COVID-19 has killed April 28, 2021 10:08 AM CDT By PAI
Faces of New York s Metropolitan Transportation Authority employees who died of COVID-19 are displayed at Moynihan Train Hall, Jan. 28, 2021, in Manhattan. | John Minchillo / AP
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (PAI) Just before Halloween last year, 23 workers at the Midwest Warehouse and Distribution system plant in the Chicago suburb of Naperville got sick. Days before, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, they were close together in the company lunchroom. On Oct. 26, they started feeling symptoms and told supervisors.
Amtrak Issues FY20 Sustainability Report
Amtrak Issues FY20 Sustainability Report Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
In FY 2020, Amtrak advanced climate resilience research and response, which included developing its first solar-power purchase agreement contract and tools to incorporate climate risks into capital planning, for instance.
Amtrak has published a sustainability report for FY 2020, highlighting projects across its regions and operations as well as measured progress against its annual and long-term goals.
Although ridership fell in 2020 due to the pandemic, Amtrak said it advanced climate resilience research and response, which included developing its first solar-power purchase agreement contract and tools to incorporate climate risks into capital planning, as well as initiating internal climate roundtables across various departments.