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Article: RUNNING THE RAILROAD\ NEW AMTRAK CHIEF WILL WORK TO IMPROVE IMAGE, SERVICE.(Business)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- January 27, 2007
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Byline: Sarah Karush Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Amtrak's new president wants to upgrade the passenger railroad's image and the tracks it shares with the nation's increasingly busy freight rail carriers, and he expects the federal government to help.
Four months into the job, Alex Kummant said he found the much-maligned railroad in better shape than he expected. But he said it could still do a better job taking advantage of a growing appetite for rail travel fueled by high gas prices and highway congestion.
"There is a lot of good news to talk about," Kummant said in an interview in his office atop Washington's Union Station. "You have to build the Amtrak brand ...