Hotline #1,030: Penn Station To Resume Regular Service; SEPTA Train Crash Injures 33; STB...

Check Out Our Newest Hotline! NARP thanks those members who have sent in industry-related news stories, op-eds, editorials, or letters to the editor from your communities. We include them in our social media efforts, along with the weekly Hotline. Please send your news items to Bob Brady, bbrady@xenophonstrategies.com, and we will continue to share it with the membership. We also ask members to send events that we can put on the website here. And please follow NARP on Facebook and Twitter. The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is increasing pressure on CSX to improve its new system for freight trains to allow Amtrak to get passengers to their destinations on time. The federal agency now requires CSX to provide hard numbers, as opposed to anecdotal evidence, showing improvement in services due to operational changes recently implemented. As a result of these changes, Amtrak's Hoosier State and Cardinal trains, which run on CSX tracks between Indianapolis and Dyer, have seen significant declines in on-

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