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• - Created by Congress in 1997 to monitor Amtrak's financial performance and viability. Includes ARC's 2002 Amtrak restructuring plan, other documents, and Congressional testimony,
  
• - Congressional hearing held February 2002.
  
• - Article assesses Amtrak's financial prospects in 2001.
  
• - Article on Amtrak cost-cutting efforts in 2001 in the face of financial crisis.
  
• - Report recounts a cross-country rail trip, looks at the dependence of rural towns on passenger trains, and presents options for reforming Amtrak.
  
• - Article reminisces about classic pre-Amtrak sleeping cars.
  
• - Lists trains running immediately before and after Amtrak's 1971 debut; half disappeared.
  
• - Reports on Amtrak performance, Congressional testimony, and related documents.
  
• - Amtrak mileage calculator and tracker.
  
• - Information on Amtrak's frequent-traveler rewards program.
  
• - News and reports from the independent office that investigates allegations of waste, fraud, and abuse.
  
• - Personal page includes news archive back to 1995, photos, links, and bibliography.
  
• - Includes a brief Amtrak history, selected documents, a photo archive, and society news updates.
  
• - Discussion forum, photos, and information.
  
• - Paper argues that Amtrak is a vital public service and opposes proposals for privatizing it.
  
• - 2001 Congressional Research Service report.
  
• - 1999 Congressional Research Service report.
  
• - Article from the online encyclopedia.
  
• - May 2000 report by the U.S. Government Accounting Office on Amtrak's financial prospects.
  
• - Congressional hearing held April 2002.
  
• - Article describes the creation of Amtrak in 1971 and its early days of operation.
  
• - Compendium of facts and figures.
  
• - Discussion forum.
  
• - 1999 analysis of Amtrak issues facing Congress.
  
• - How Amtrak sleeping accommodations are priced. 2001 article.