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US President Joe Biden delivers remarks at an event marking Amtrak’s 50th Anniversary, at the 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, April 30, 2021. Reuters pic
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PHILADELPHIA, May 1 President Joe Biden he’d probably be just as happy with his nickname Amtrak Joe celebrated the national rail system’s 50th anniversary today by urging huge funding increases as part of a US$2.3 trillion (RM9.42 trillion) US infrastructure makeover.
Dubbed the passenger rail system’s best customer, Biden became famous for daily commutes between Washington and his Delaware home during the 36 years he was a senator.
‘Amtrak Joe’ Marks Amtrak’s 50th Written by David Peter Alan, Contributing Editor
April 30, 2021 was a cool, sunny and windy day in Philadelphia, as President Joe Biden joined Amtrak officials and selected guests to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the day “America’s Railroad” began operations.
It was a day that many rail passengers at the time never thought would come. Amtrak was founded to relieve the private-sector freight railroads of their obligation to run passenger trains, and most of the trains that left their points of origin on April 30, 1971 did not run the following day. At the time, few expected Amtrak to last very long, except, perhaps only on the Northeast Corridor (NEC). But Americans still wanted the few trains that were left and kept using them, so Amtrak is still with us.
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