Long-distance intercity passenger rail service is provided by Amtrak's Vermonter and Downeaster lines.
Dubuque's last intercity passenger service ended in 1981 with the discontinuance of Amtrak's Black Hawk.
The bill also creates a new capital grants program for states to provide new or improved intercity passenger rail.
The Saskatchewan Transportation Company provides intercity passenger and parcel express service to Eastend.
While intercity passenger rail travel declined in the United States during 1950s, ridership continued to increase in Europe during that time.
The upper level of the head house housed a concourse and other facilities for intercity passengers, including "dressing rooms, baths, nurses and matrons rooms, and a doctor's office."
The court would be transformed into a new concourse for intercity passengers and the arch would rise 120 feet overhead, as high as the vaulted ceiling in Grand Central Terminal.
The station is one of the busiest intercity passenger railroad facilities in the United States.
It is also used by intercity passenger and freight trains.
While intercity passenger rail travel declined in America, ridership continued to increase in other parts of the world.