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Amtrak could go to Quad Cities, Dubuque by 2011

By Chase Martyn 7/24/09

The Des Moines Register reports today that Amtrak passenger rail connections from Chicago to the Quad Cities and Dubuque appear “likely within two years.” A feasibility study about extending the Quad Cities line through Des Moines, which the Register says was expected to happen this year, has been delayed until at least next year.

Culver tours western Iowa to promote passenger rail

By Jason Hancock 6/24/09

The casual observer couldn’t be faulted for seeing Gov. Chet Culver’s itinerary and thinking the 2010 campaign was already underway, but the governor insisted that his 13-city whistlestop tour across Western Iowa was “about getting things done and setting the politics aside.”

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