What is the name of the company that operates passenger rail services throughout the USA?
"Central Railroad of New Jersey (1967) and Lehigh and Hudson River Railway (1972). In 1970 Congress created a government corporation, Amtrak, to take over operation of Penn Central passenger lines and selected inter-city passenger services from other private railroads, under the Rail Passenger Service Act. Amtrak began operations in 1971. Congress passed the ""Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973"" (sometimes called the ""3R Act"") to salvage viable freight operations from the bankrupt Penn Central and other lines in the northeast, mid-Atlantic and midwestern regions, through the creation of the Consolidated Rail Corporation (ConRail), a government-owned corporation. Conrail began operations in"
"Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States and to nine Canadian cities. Founded in 1971 as a quasi-public corporation to operate many U.S. passenger rail it receives a combination of state and federal subsidies but is managed as a for-profit organization. Amtrak's headquarters is located one block west of Union Station in Washington, D.C. Amtrak serves more than 500 destinations in 46 states and three Canadian provinces, operating more than 300 trains daily over of track. Amtrak owns approximately 623"
"All Aboard America! All Aboard America! Holdings is an American bus company. It is the sixth-largest motorcoach operator in the United States and Canada. It operates charters, tours, casino and cruise shuttles, and scheduled routes. All Aboard America! was formed in 1936 under the name Industrial Bus Lines. It served Texas and the southwest. In 2012, the private equity firm Celerity Partners acquired All Aboard America and Calco Hotard of New Orleans. In 2014, All Aboard America! acquired Sun Diego Charter of San Diego. In 2015, All Aboard America! acquired the paratransit operator for Denver's Regional Transportation District and the"
"Empire Service The Empire Service is a higher-speed train service operated by Amtrak within the state of New York in the United States. The brand name originated with the New York Central Railroad in 1967. Trains on the line provide frequent daily service along the Empire Corridor between New York City and Niagara Falls, New York via Albany, the state capital. During fiscal year 2014, the ""Empire Service"" carried 1,119,959 passengers on the line between New York and Albany, while services between Albany and points west, including the ""Maple Leaf"" and ""Lake Shore Limited"", carried an additional 410,344. Ridership on"
"(United States), climbing the well-known mountain Pikes Peak. The base station is in Manitou Springs, Colorado near Colorado Springs. The railway is the highest in North America by a considerable margin. It was built and is operated solely for the tourist trade. The railway was started by Zalmon G. Simmons, inventor and founder of the Simmons Beautyrest Mattress Company and David Moffat. The company was founded in 1889 and limited service to the Halfway House Hotel was started in 1890. The summit was reached the following year. In 1885 David Moffat was elected to Denver & Rio Grande board. Then"
"and the Chicago metropolitan area is infrequent and rarely used relative to networks in Europe and Japan. Passenger lines in most of the United States are operated by the quasi-public corporation Amtrak. The separate Alaska Railroad (also government-owned) runs passenger trains in Alaska, and Brightline rail service operating in Florida. The California High-Speed Rail system began construction in 2015 and aims to connect major job centers in California. Multiple new rail corridors have been identified for private development throughout the country. These include the XpressWest corridor from Las Vegas to Victor Valley, California, the Texas Central Railway between Dallas and"
"Crescent (train) The Crescent is a passenger train operated by Amtrak in the eastern United States. It operates daily between Pennsylvania Station in New York City and Union Passenger Terminal in New Orleans as train numbers 19 and 20. Most of the route of the ""Crescent"" is on the Norfolk Southern Railway. It is the successor of numerous trains dating to 1891, and was first introduced in its present form in 1970 by Norfolk Southern's predecessor, the Southern Railway. The ""Crescent"" passes through eleven states and the District of Columbia, more than any other Amtrak route. During fiscal year 2016,"
"CSXT is part of the CSX Corporation family of transportation companies operating worldwide. On June 1, 1999, CSXT began operating Conrail lines when it purchased 40 percent of the company. CSXT operates in 23 states, the District of Columbia and two Canadian provinces. It is the largest rail network in the northeast United States and owns in New York State. The key commodities it transports include automotive, grain, food products, paper and chemicals. The ""Mohawk Subdivision"" (Chicago Main Line) utilizes the New York Central Railroad (NYC) main line track as its primary route between New York, Boston and Chicago. Traffic"
"Jefferson Lines Jefferson Lines (JL or JLI) is a regional intercity bus company operating in the United States. Today, the Jefferson Lines system extends from Grand Forks, North Dakota, south to Wichita Falls, Texas. The company is operated by Jefferson Partners L.P., located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jefferson Partners also conducts charter bus service within Minneapolis and Billings for large group travel. The company is the second-largest bus company in the U.S. that operates from fixed stations. Founded in 1919 during the early days of motorcoach travel, the company serves 13 states as of 2018: The company's name originates from the"
"APU (formerly Penn Central) 53%, BNSF (35%), Canadian Pacific (7%), and Canadian National (5%). The following are major accidents and incidents that involved Amtrak trains. Topics dealing with Amtrak Rail companies of interest Other national railroads Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States and to nine Canadian cities. Founded in 1971 as a quasi-public corporation to operate many U.S. passenger rail it receives a combination of state and federal subsidies but is managed as a for-profit organization. Amtrak's headquarters is"
"Long Island Rail Road The Long Island Rail Road , legally known as the Long Island Rail Road Company and often abbreviated as the LIRR, is a commuter rail system in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island. With an average weekday ridership of 354,800 passengers in 2016, it is the busiest commuter railroad in North America. It is also one of the world's few commuter systems that runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, year-round. It is publicly owned by the"
"main passenger rail service on the Seaboard. The ""Acela Express"" offers the only high-speed rail passenger service in the Americas. Between New York and Boston the ""Acela Express"" has up to a 54% share of the combined train and air passenger market. Some of the largest airports in the United States are located in states which lie in the East Coast of the United States, such as John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Logan International Airport in Boston, Newark Liberty Airport in Newark, New Jersey, Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Baltimore–Washington International Airport near Baltimore, Washington-Dulles International Airport"
"Wells Fargo Rail Wells Fargo Rail is the new name for the historic First Union Rail Corporation, along with the combined business of the former GE Capital Rail Services, which Wells Fargo purchased from GE in September 2015. The new company/name took effect January 1, 2016, and is based in Rosemont, Illinois, USA. Wells Fargo Rail is the largest railcar and locomotive leasing company in North America with over 175,000 railcars and 1,800 locomotives available. Wells Fargo Rail provides various services to its rail customers. It of course leases the railcars and locomotives, but also provides the financing for the"
"Illinois Service The Illinois Service, branded as Amtrak Illinois, is an American passenger rail network that consists of five trains operated by Amtrak on three corridors to provide frequent daily service between Chicago and other cities in the state of Illinois, along with the city of St. Louis in the neighbouring state of Missouri. The ""Illinois Service"" is funded primarily by the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT). The ""Illinois Service"" is made up of the following routes: Trains run twice daily on each route, except for the ""Lincoln Service"", which runs four times daily. Two lines were planned to be"
"Rail Europe, Inc. Rail Europe, Inc. is a North American distributor of European rail products, representing over 50 railways throughout Europe. Rail Europe's history of doing business in North America dates back to the 1930s. In 1959, the company introduced the Eurail Pass to the North American market. The company is headquartered in White Plains, New York, and has a contact Center located in Rosemont, Illinois, ISO 9001:2008 certified. Rail Europe provides assistance to travelers in English, French and Spanish both on the Web and in their contact center. Rail Europe serves over one million travelers per year. The company's"
"privately owned and operated passenger railroad in the United States. On January 3, 2018, it was reported that Fortress was nearing a deal to sell its stake on OneMain to Apollo Global Management. The agreement was announced on January 5, with Varde Partners also taking part in the purchase. In 2006, Fortress-managed Funds acquired Canadian ski resort operator Intrawest, North America's largest ski resort operator that also operated luxury adventure travel brands such as Abercrombie & Kent, which was sold in August, 2016. On November 15, 2006, RailAmerica Inc. announced that a Fortress-managed fund would acquire the company, offering $16.35"
"Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad (or legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans. The Union Pacific Railroad system is the second largest in the United States after the BNSF Railway and is one of the world's largest transportation companies. The Union Pacific Railroad is the principal operating company of the Union Pacific Corporation (); both are headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. Union Pacific is known for pioneering multiple innovative locomotives, typically the most powerful of their"
"Rocky Mountaineer Rocky Mountaineer is a Canadian rail-tour company offering Western Canadian vacation packages that operates trains on four rail routes through British Columbia, Alberta, and the U.S. state of Washington. The company was founded by the Armstrong Group in 1990, and is based in Vancouver, British Columbia. It ran its first train on May 27, 1990. It is the busiest privately owned passenger rail service in North America, having transported over one million passengers since 1990. Rocky Mountaineer has been awarded the ""World's Leading Travel Experience by Train"" at the World Travel Awards seven times for its GoldLeaf service"
"brought to a head on March 5, 1970, when the Penn Central, the largest railroad in the Northeast United States and teetering on bankruptcy, filed to discontinue 34 of its passenger trains. In October 1970, Congress passed, and President Richard Nixon signed into law, the Rail Passenger Service Act. Proponents of the bill, led by the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP), sought government funding to ensure the continuation of passenger trains. They conceived the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (NRPC), a private entity that would receive taxpayer funding and assume operation of intercity passenger trains. The original working brand name"
"service would soon become extinct in the United States beyond a few highly populated corridors. The final blow for passenger trains in the U.S. came with the loss of railroad post offices in the 1960s. On May 1, 1971, the federally funded Amtrak took over (with a few exceptions) all intercity passenger rail service in the continental United States. The Rio Grande, with its Denver-Ogden ""Rio Grande Zephyr"" and the Southern with its Washington, D.C.–New Orleans ""Southern Crescent"" chose to stay out of Amtrak, and the Rock Island, with two intrastate Illinois trains, was too far gone to be included"
"TransitAmerica Services TransitAmerica Services, Inc. is a United States commuter rail corporation headquartered in St. Joseph, Missouri. In November 2002, Herzog Transit Services Inc and Stagecoach Group announced a corporate partnership to form TransitAmerica. While both companies will continue to serve their existing clients, TransitAmerica will exclusively work in the United States. In 2004, Stagecoach transferred its interest in the partnership to Herzog. On May 13th 2005, TransitAmerica was officially incorporated in the State of Missouri. TransitAmerica (TASI) is a sister company of Herzog. On September 1st 2011, the Caltrain board of directors approved TransitAmerica to operate the system starting"
"features weapons from the late 19th and 20th centuries, outlaw paraphernalia, a sampling of the immigrants' possessions, and a photograph collection comprising more than 500,000 images. Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad (or legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans. The Union Pacific Railroad system is the second largest in the United States after the BNSF Railway and is one of the world's largest transportation companies. The Union Pacific Railroad is the principal operating company of"
"Las Vegas Railway Express Las Vegas Railway Express, branded as ""X Train,"" was an American rail transport company that planned to operate passenger rail service between Southern California and Las Vegas, Nevada. In May 2017, the Las Vegas Railway Express sold its operation and branding to X Rail Entertainment. In October 2018, the Las Vegas Railway Express proposed to change its name to United Rail Inc. In November 2018, the company chose First Transit Group to operate the train. Led by Michael Barron, an entrepreneur largely involved in real estate, the company was formed in January 2010 from a combination"
"Denver operations of Horizon Coach Lines, which was renamed Ace Express Coaches. In 2016, All Aboard America! was acquired by Tensile Capital Partners. All Aboard America! Holdings operates the following scheduled services: All Aboard America! All Aboard America! Holdings is an American bus company. It is the sixth-largest motorcoach operator in the United States and Canada. It operates charters, tours, casino and cruise shuttles, and scheduled routes. All Aboard America! was formed in 1936 under the name Industrial Bus Lines. It served Texas and the southwest. In 2012, the private equity firm Celerity Partners acquired All Aboard America and Calco"
"users of mass transit and two-thirds of railway passengers in the country live in New York and its suburbs. Amtrak provides inter-city passenger rail service from Penn Station to Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.; Upstate New York and New England; cross-Canadian border service to Toronto and Montreal; and destinations in the Southern and Midwestern United States. New York's iconic yellow taxicabs, which number 13,087 city-wide and must have the requisite medallion authorizing the pick up of street hails, are ubiquitous in the borough. Various private transportation network companies provide significant competition for cab drivers in Manhattan. Manhattan also has"
"in fiscal year 2013. The awarded contract is for five years with five one year options. The first full fiscal year (2013) will total 59.5 million dollars within the projected Caltrain budgets. TransitAmerica Services TransitAmerica Services, Inc. is a United States commuter rail corporation headquartered in St. Joseph, Missouri. In November 2002, Herzog Transit Services Inc and Stagecoach Group announced a corporate partnership to form TransitAmerica. While both companies will continue to serve their existing clients, TransitAmerica will exclusively work in the United States. In 2004, Stagecoach transferred its interest in the partnership to Herzog. On May 13th 2005, TransitAmerica"
"Security Administration provides security at airports. Passenger trains were the dominant mode of transportation until the mid-twentieth century. The introduction of jet airplanes on major U.S. routes and the completion of the Interstate Highway system accelerated a decline in intercity rail passenger demand during the 1960s, resulting in the sharp curtailment of passenger service by private railroads. This led to the creation of National Railroad Passenger Corporation (branded as Amtrak) by the federal government in 1971 to maintain limited intercity rail passenger service in most parts of the country. Amtrak serves most major cities but, outside of the Northeast, California,"
"Virgin Trains Virgin Trains (legal name West Coast Trains Limited) is a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Virgin Rail Group that has operated the InterCity West Coast franchise since 9 March 1997. Virgin Trains operates long-distance passenger services on the West Coast Main Line between London, West Midlands, North West England, North Wales and Scotland. The service connects six of the UK's largest cities; London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow and Edinburgh, which have a combined metropolitan population of over 18 million people. The Virgin Trains brand has also been used on the legally and operationally separate"
"Amtrak access to their track upon request. In return, Amtrak pays fees to freight railroads to cover the incremental costs of Amtrak's use of freight railroad tracks. The sole intercity passenger railroad in the continental U.S. is Amtrak. Commuter rail systems exist in more than a dozen metropolitan areas, but these systems are not extensively interconnected, so commuter rail cannot be used alone to traverse the country. Commuter systems have been proposed in approximately two dozen other cities, but interplays between various local-government administrative bottlenecks and ripple effects from the 2007–2012 global financial crisis have generally pushed such projects farther"
"rail) systems that offer bidirectional all-day service and may provide useful connections between suburbs and edge cities, rather than merely transporting workers to a central business district. This is different from the European use of ""regional rail"", which generally refers to services midway between commuter rail and intercity rail that are not primarily commuter-oriented. The two busiest passenger rail stations in the United States are Pennsylvania Station and Grand Central Terminal, which are both located in New York City, and which serve three of the four busiest commuter railroads in the United States (the LIRR and New Jersey Transit at"
"leases (Operating Leases, Net Lease, Full Service Lease and Car Hire Arrangement), and also Sale/Leaseback (buying rail stock from company and leasing it back to them), Portfolio Acquisitions, Asset Sales and Lease/Sublease. It also offers Management Services and various Marketing Services. Wells Fargo Rail Wells Fargo Rail is the new name for the historic First Union Rail Corporation, along with the combined business of the former GE Capital Rail Services, which Wells Fargo purchased from GE in September 2015. The new company/name took effect January 1, 2016, and is based in Rosemont, Illinois, USA. Wells Fargo Rail is the largest"
"Conrail Conrail (formally the Consolidated Rail Corporation, with reporting mark CR) was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeastern United States between 1976 and 1999. The trade name Conrail is a portmanteau based on the company's legal name, and while it no longer operates trains it continues to do business as an asset management and network services provider in three Shared Assets Areas that were excluded from the division of its operations during its acquisition by CSX Corporation and the Norfolk Southern Railway. The Federal Government created Conrail to take over the potentially-profitable lines of multiple bankrupt carriers, including"
"single commercial would be cited years later by ""New York"" as one of the most memorable ads ever. FedEx FedEx Corporation is an American multinational courier delivery services company headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. The name ""FedEx"" is a syllabic abbreviation of the name of the company's original air division, Federal Express (now FedEx Express), which was used from 1973 until 2000. The company is known for its overnight shipping service and pioneering a system that could track packages and provide real-time updates on package location (to help in finding lost packages), a feature that has now been implemented by most"