How to Use passenger rail in a Sentence

passenger rail

noun

• But the town started to change when passenger rail service to Hope ended in the 1960s.
  — Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2024
• There was a bill to block state funding for passenger rail at the State House this session.
  — Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
• The train will be decoupled at Calabria and loaded onto the world’s first passenger rail ferry for a trip to the island.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2024
• The project is touted as the first true high-speed passenger rail line in the nation, designed to reach speeds of 186 mph, comparable to Japan’s Shinkansen bullet trains.
  — Ken Ritter, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2024
• Japan’s high-speed bullet trains are famous for speeding across the country—but China wants to set a new world record for the fastest electric passenger rail.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 Feb. 2025
• On those days, there will be no passenger rail service and no replacement bus service.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2023
• But in those years passenger rail was a dominant business.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• That schedule would change under one of four plans for new or expanded passenger rail service in Ohio.
  — Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 12 June 2024
• The governor also made the case for expanding Colorado’s transit options, chiefly with a passenger rail along the Front Range.
  — Washington Examiner, 13 Jan. 2024
• But officials in cities along the route have high hopes that improving passenger rail connections will boost commerce and tourism.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 21 May 2024
• National rail investment, but not in Boise Boise and its surrounding cities haven’t had passenger rail service since the late 1990s.
  — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 6 Feb. 2024
• The City of Madison will hold two public meetings discussing the potential passenger rail station sites.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2024
• After a 50-year fight for survival, Amtrak finally has the resources to make passenger rail more viable.
  — Kathleen Gallagher, Journal Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2023
• The Queen City is poised to regain its reputation as one of the nation’s busiest train stops with a flurry of proposals on the table to expand passenger rail service here.
  — Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 25 June 2024
• Dyson argued that track realignment would not only move the trains out of harm’s way but also make for a faster and more competitive passenger rail service.
  — Gabriel San Román, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
• More Americans rode Amtrak trains than ever in 2024, as interest in passenger rail has seen a resurgence across the United States.
  — Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 15 Dec. 2024
• The private Miami passenger rail company thinks that will be the fastest a set of locomotives and coach cars has ever traveled in the Sunshine State.
  — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2023
• Moreover, there are other passenger rail systems in California, which may want a share of any money headed to the Golden State.
  — Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2023
• The big picture: Overall, Georgia received a C+ with the highest marks for ports, schools, energy, freight and passenger rail and bridge infrastructure.
  — Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 10 July 2024
• Sean Duffy, 53, the former Wisconsin congressman and Fox Business host, has a record of opposing passenger rail.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 2 Dec. 2024
• State transportation officials have announced the government groups that will take the lead in shaping a proposal to return passenger rail service to the Phoenix area.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2024
• Speed isn’t everything, of course, and there are geographic and historical reasons that passenger rail is so feeble in the U.S.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• And the tracks have been preserved in case the passenger rail makes a comeback, a possibility Amtrak began floating last November.
  — Amelia Benavides-Colón, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
• In December, the Biden administration announced $8.2 billion in funds will be allotted to 10 passenger rail projects across the US.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Dec. 2023
• Friday’s trip was planned before the shooting and Biden’s focus on train service is little surprise for a president who is a big passenger rail advocate.
  — Will Weissert, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2023
• The surge in federal funding for Amtrak prompted a number of studies to find the best places to add service, and fast-growing cities in the southeast were identified as top markets for passenger rail service.
  — Sandy Mazza, The Tennessean, 17 Nov. 2024
• With little to no passenger rail services remaining in sub-Saharan Africa, the countryside crossed by the railway is largely untouched by tourism.
  — Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2023
• Workers are still trying to restore passenger rail service between Orange County and San Diego.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
• The new bridge would double train capacity to support commerce and increasing demands for passenger rail along the busy East Coast corridor.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• Plus Chicago always will be a major passenger rail hub, so the growing sector of rail tourism benefits the city, even if the U.S. is decades behind other nations in infrastructure and service.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2024