Hotline #1,010: Amtrak Takes Blame for Derailments; Infrastructure Plan Could be Released...

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. In a span of less than two weeks, two passenger trains were involved in minor derailments at New York’s Penn Station. While there were no serious injuries, both derailments resulted in delays for passengers, highlighting the critical need for additional investment in rail infrastructure, particularly in legacy systems facing massive state-of-good-repair backlogs. Most recently, a NJ Transit train derailed on April 3 as it was pulling into the the station at a relatively low speed. The incident,

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