Amtrak

BART Bay Area Rapid Transit, known by the acronym BART, is the main rail transportation system for the San Francisco Bay Area. It was envisioned as early as 1946 but the construction of the original system began in the 1960s. Origins and planning The idea of an underwater electric rail tube was first proposed in the early 1900s by Francis "Borax" Smith. There were also plans for a third-rail powered subway line (Twin Peaks Tunnel) under Market Street in the 1910s. Much of BART's current…

On Monday, December 18th, an Amtrak train on its inaugural run from Seattle, Washington to Portland, Oregon derailed off a bridge and fell onto Interstate 5, killing 3 people and injuring many more. Even though the route has been operating for two weeks with non-revenue trains, this was the first passenger train to use Amtrak’s new inland Cascades Line. Though the reason for the crash has not been determined, officials have said that speed was a major factor. At the time of the incident, the…

also known as Amtrak is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service throughout United States. Founded in 1971 to revive passenger rail service, congress passed the Rail Passenger Service Act which in turn created Amtrak. Amtrak serves more than 500 destinations in 46 states and three Canadian provinces, operating more than 300 trains each day over 21,300 miles with travel speeds as high as 150 mph. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., Amtrak employs…

Threat assessment The Amtrak train station in Wilmington Delaware is a huge train depo that shuffles hundreds of people out of Delaware into other states. In today’s world, there seems to be plenty of organizations that are out to cause terror and fear. And with the Amtrak station being a very populated space there is potential for various indirect threats. These threats are implied or are always being thought about. But being a train depot what is its main purpose,…

On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City For this story, the first critical strategy I’m going to use is the historical approach. While reading this story I’ll ask questions in a history way like what major historical events was presented in the story, is they any dates used, what's the background of the author or main character, etc. I would have all these questions in the back of my mind if I wanted to understand this story with a historical view. Now if I were a history critic reading this…

Amtrak Case Study In this case study Amtrak experience one of its deadliest accident. The stakeholders in this case are the Amtrak engineers, crewmembers, train attendants, passengers, the conductor, and anyone who have business or who associates with Amtrak. These stakeholders all have something in common with Amtrak. They all would rather see the trip go as smoothly as possible. The passengers use this form of transportation because it was reasonable and it got them to their destination in…

Sherman Alexie is a Native American, he is a poet, filmmaker, and writer. He uses his experience as a Native American to write such as On the Amtrak from Boston to New York, Indian Killer, Reservation Blue. However, “On the Amtrak from Boston to New York” is the best poem, it reveals his strongly feeling through it. The poem talked about his meeting on the train with the white American woman. She told him about American history which he was well known. He thought she was annoyed, and she made…

Imagery has a major impact in the all poem’s but in the poem, On The Amtrak from Boston to New York. The Speaker states certain lines to make the reader understand what is going on visually through the conflict between the white woman and the speaker. The speaker synthesizes his history and the white woman’s history. In the beginning of the poem the woman isn't generally speaking to him about her history. The speaker infers that the white woman is speaking to him because she is “across the aisle…

Railroad Passenger Corporation, better known as Amtrak, is a large company that manages railways all across the country. In 1970, President Nixon signed the Rail Passenger Service Act created by Congress, which started Amtrak. Since the beginning of operations in 1971, Amtrak has been delivering thousands to their destinations every single day, with 15 main national network routes and many other routes that reach over 500 communities nationwide. Amtrak, like other transportation corporations,…

On May 12, 2015, an Amtrak train derailed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, drawing in the media to cover the story. Media has a way with distributing bits and pieces of information to the public. When media does release information, the information is released in a way that makes viewers or readers perceive something in a particular way. When news surfaced about the derailed Amtrak train, media officials took it upon themselves to start pointing fingers as to why a crash of this magnitude happened…