Amtrak continues to set records for the number of passengers it carries. In the first seven months of the its fiscal year, since Oct. 1, ridership was up 5 percent over the same period of 2006. Trains that run in the Boston-to-Washington Northeast Corridor gained but the biggest increases were in other routes under 500 miles. The company news release can be found here
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