Proper noun
Amtrak
- (US, rail transport) A US passenger railway (incorporated as the National Railroad Passenger Corporation).
1969, School Mathematics Study Group, Studies in mathematics, volumes 19-20, page 8:Trains are fuller under Amtrak, but it is thought to be largely because there are fewer trains.
1971, “Give the trains a chance”, in Life, page 42:Its pitifully small appropriation of $40 million already gone, Amtrak has asked Congress for another $170 million to keep the trains running through mid-1973.
1999, Bernd Schmitt, Experiential marketing, page 39:The Amtrak brand revitalization approach represents one of the most ambitious, comprehensive, and systematic experiential marketing approaches I have ever seen.