Bristol, VA Herald-Courier, 7/8/23:
Bristol gets voice, vote on Amtrak passenger service effort
The Twin City's efforts to secure Amtrak passenger service now have a voice and a vote on the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority board of directors.
Here is the story.
There is a hidden message in this article. Many say that Bristol cannot be the end of the line, that it just be a station on the way to locations in Tennessee. A station at the end of the line has to pay for facilities to turn and maintain the trains and store them between runs. Not being the last or first station saves those costs.
And consider a place like Lynchburg, VA which for a while was the end of the line for some Northeast Regionals. They paid for a secure storage facility next to the station, and then when service was extended further to Roanoke, the Lynchburg facilities suddenly became needless.