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    • Amtrak at 50: "The Future Rides With Us"
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    • TESTER INTRODUCES BILL TO RESTORE AMTRAK FURLOUGHED EMPLOYEES, FULL SERVICE TO THE HI-LINE
    • Next stop: Uncertainty
    • Agents back at Amtrak stations, Tuss to speak at hearing secured by Tester
    • Feds give Wisconsin-Minnesota rail project $31M grant
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    • Congress, RPA question Amtrak cutting schedule
    • Empire Builder to be reduced to tri-weekly October 1, 2020
    • Amtrak to reinstate ticket agents at Havre and Shelby
    • Federal grant awarded for second Amtrak train between the Twin Cities and Chicago.
    • Tracking ridership through the pandemic: February 2020
    • Tracking ridership through the pandemic: March 2020
    • Havre Daily News: Empire Builder tops in long distance ridership
    • Empire Builder tops long-distance ridership again in FY2019
    • Amtrak Leadership Wounds The Empire Builder Yet Again
    • Tester defends long-distance Amtrak service for rural Montana
    • The Empire Builder: Still rolling at 90
    • Senators Push Transportation Department, Amtrak for Answers on Future of Empire Builder
    • Optimism for second passenger train on Amtrak line grows after Portage meeting
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    • As Amtrak Proposes Changes to Long-Distance Trains, Passenger Rail Advocates Sound the Alarm
    • Amtrak’s “faulty route accounting”: RPA
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    • Amtrak has reached a crossroads. Congress can help.
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