This coming Saturday, train travelers and fans from the Midwest will gather in Omaha. Dan Lutz, president of “Pro-Rail Nebraska” says it’s a nonprofit, nonpartisan group, with the goal of keeping the inter-city passenger trains running and add urban commuter trains. This weekend’s meeting includes railroad passengers and advocates from Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and South Dakota. He says Amtrak claims to be a national rail passenger network, though many think to survive, trains will have to be high-speed ones. He says the Midwest hi-speed rail corridor would have Chicago as a “hub” would go through Des Moines to Omaha. The ProRail group has approved a resolution calling on Congress to keep funding passenger trains and add a second daily Amtrak route across Iowa and Nebraska.
SEARCH THIS SITE
RECENT NEWS
- Iowa housing market movement looks to be back where it was before COVID
- Grassley: Pentagon workers spent millions of pandemic dollars on personal expenses
- After missing Iowa trucker’s body found, wife says: ‘Things don’t add up.’
- Western Iowa Tech to pay millions to students to settle lawsuit
- $18.8 million workforce housing development planned in Spirit Lake