Amtrak Cascades route to get $38M for new railcars
Washington State Department of Transportation is getting roughly $38 million to procure new railcars for the Amtrak Cascades route, which was a recommendation from National Transportation Safety Board following the fatal 2017 derailment in Dupont, Washington.
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Tom Banse
Regional Correspondent
Tom Banse covers national news, business, science, public policy, Olympic sports, and human interest stories across Washington state. Now semi-retired, Banse is an Olympia-based reporter with more than three decades of experience covering the Pacific Northwest. Most of his career was spent with public radio's Northwest News Network, but now in semi-retirement his work appears on multiple nonprofit news outlets including KUOW. His recent areas of focus range from transportation, U.S.-Canada borderlands, the Northwest region's planned hydrogen hub, and emergency preparedness.
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