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Synopsis: Transport & travel: Rail travel: Companies: Amtrak:

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Amtrak goes to the cowsi don't eat a lot of meat. I prefer that the animals I do eat lived in an at least somewhat healthful and respectful fashion,

For the next year, Amtrak's Heartland Flyer passenger train will make the 206-mile trip between Fort worth

the Federal Railroad Administration gave Amtrak $274, 000 to see how the beef-based fuel would fare in the 3, 200-horsepower engine of a P32-8 locomotive.

Amtrak will also gather and analyze data on the locomotive's exhaust. Roy Deitchman, Amtrak vice president of environmental, health and safety, in a statement:

Amtrak travel is already more energy efficient than most other forms of intercity transportation. If the test shows this use of a renewable fuel in our locomotive is successful, its a home run for our passengers, for our partners and for the planet.

Each day Amtrak runs more than 300 trains over about 21,000 miles of track in North america. Should B20 become functionally and economically feasible,

that could be a lot of cows. That would also be a lot less pollution. In the name of reducing emissions and fuel usage,

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Eventually that activism led to a conversation that turned into the expansion of the Downeaster Amtrak service from Portland to Brunswick.

We have one of the best-rated Amtrak systems in country. It s one of the only Amtrak services where you can get Wifi and lobster rolls.

The numbers this has grown by have exceeded expectations. Did 295 ever expand? No, 295 still hasn t been widened.

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