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'Amtrak Joe' Marks Amtrak's 50th - Railway Age

‘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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Portal North Receives FFGA - Railway Age

Portal North rendering courtesy Gateway Development Corp.
New Jersey Transit has approved entering into a Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA) with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for the new, $1.8 billion fixed-span Portal North Bridge on the Northeast Corridor, crossing the Hackensack River in the New Jersey Meadowlands. Portal North, part of the massive Gateway Program, will replace 110-year-old Portal Bridge, a mechanical-trouble-plagued swing bridge built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1910 as part of its New York Improvements project.
The FFGA is the last stage of the Capital Investment Grant process to fund Portal North. The FTA will provide just over $766 million, with the Federal Highway Administration providing roughly $57 million. NJT and Amtrak will provide the balance of funding, about $977 million, and share operating and maintenance. ....

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