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FRA Administrator on Amtrak BOD
I just updated the Board of Directors section to include the list of directors as documented on the Amtrak website. The previous edit included a bullet point for FRA administrator Sarah E. Feinberg, but the linked page doesn't mention anything about being an alternate on the board, nor anything about the Amtrak board at all so I removed it. Is there any documentation for this?
Additionally, this US Code section mentions 10 total board members: the President of Amtrak, the Secretary of Transportation, and 8 other appointees. So it would seem we are missing a listed member and yet the Amtrak page only lists 9 members. - Overturn 91 (talk) 15:07, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
Railroad categories
@Oknazevad: Regarding this revert, Amtrak may be a railroad owner, but it is not a railroad by itself. For example Kyle Railroad is a railroad that is owned by a certain company with a different name. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:50, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
- Amtrak is absolutely a railroad. It owns tracks in several states, owns its own rolling stock, and perhaps most importantly hires its own engineers and conductors. Whether Amtrak should be in the various state categories is a different question. Those categories tend to be pretty broad. I tend to think that under our current practice it should. Although Amtrak neither owns nor leases track in Montana, for example, it runs trains there and employs people. In addition to being categorized, it's listed as a passenger carrier in List of Montana railroads. Mackensen (talk) 11:20, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
- What Mackensen said. Amtrak is a self-operating railroad, not merely an owner that contracts others to operate on its tracks, nor a company that operates on others' tracks exclusively. They do operate over other railroads' lines, but that is as another railroad. And they operate on their own lines. They are a railroad themselves. oknazevad (talk) 20:22, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
- @Oknazevad, Mackensen, and Marcocapelle: Amtrak IS a railroad, not a railway owner, king regards, M R T R A I N S 2 2 7 14:34, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
Wiki Education assignment: NAS 348 Global Climate Change
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 6 September 2022 and 9 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Dscsd21 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Sltiger.
— Assignment last updated by TotalSolarEclipse (talk) 14:17, 27 October 2022 (UTC) -I (User Dscsd21) plan to add a section about how Amtrak is contributing to climate change, and how climate change is effecting Amtrak under the labor issues section of the article by 11/2/2022. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dscsd21 (talk • contribs) 23:07, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
Suggest change to Lead?
From
- The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak (/ˈæmtræk/) (reporting marks AMTK, AMTZ), is the national passenger railroad company of the United States.
To
- Amtrak (/ˈæmtræk/) (reporting marks AMTK, AMTZ), is the Trade name of the "National Railroad Passenger Company" of the United States.
Why
- The subject of the article is Amtrak, and people know the corporation by the Trade Name.
How
- I like any changes to be considered by other users before implementation; and I think input from others and the opinions and insights of others are important and part of the revision process..
Flibbertigibbets (talk) 23:55, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
- The current phrasing is pretty standard when a company's legal name and trade name/branding are different. The company is the subject, not the name, which is how the proposed phrasing reads. It's better the way it is now. oknazevad (talk) 03:02, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks, that the kind of stuff I need to know before I make an edit.Flibbertigibbets (talk) Flibbertigibbets (talk) 03:11, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
With the April 2023 merger of
1970s: The Rainbow Era
The previous version had several glaring inaccuracies about the Chicago termini which I've corrected in my edit:
- No trains were relocated from LaSalle St. Station. The only intercity trains remaining there on May 1, 1971 were those of the Rock Island, which did not join Amtrak.
- Grand Central Station had been closed in 1969, so it was not a factor on Amtrak Day.
- Randolph St. Station was a commuter-only station, and was unaffected by Amtrak's formation.
- North Western Station (now Ogilvie) became commuter-only on Amtrak Day because none of the intercity trains using that station were made part of the Amtrak system map. There were thus no trains to relocate; they simply died.
- Central Station's trains were not relocated to Union Station until the first departures on March 6, 1972. The routing, which is still used to this day, involves a tedious journey that includes a back-up move.
JonRoma (talk) 19:39, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
Relating to the redirect page of the Rail Passenger Service Act
Hello there, I would like to use this section of the talk page to inform anyone that is interested that I have just made changes to the page