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by C.B. Hall, Vermont Business Magazine Amtrak trains will begin serving Vermont again on Monday, July 19, nearly 16 months after the COVID virus led to a collapse in ridership on public transportation, with Amtrak s patronage plummeting by about 95%. The national passenger rail provider canceled scores of regularly scheduled trains, including both the Vermonter and the Ethan Allen Express, the state-supported services that ply the tracks in the Green Mountain State.
Toni Hamburg Clithero, Amtrak grants program manager at the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans), told VBM that the return of the silver, blue and red trains to the state s 11 stations will be greeted by celebrations at all of those stations - and even at the Claremont Junction, N.H., station, where the Vermonter s route hooks briefly into the Granite State.
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