Brent Drinkut/Journal & Courier - Passengers deboard the Hoosier State Amtrak train at the depot, in Lafayette, on Wednesday, August 14, 2013.
Positive, but inconclusive. That is how elected leaders in Tippecanoe County described talks Wednesday about continuing Amtrak’s Hoosier State passenger rail service to Lafayette after federal funding for routes shorter than 750 miles ends Oct. 1.
Amtrak has been courting the Indiana Department of Transportation to take over the $3 million annual cost of operating the 196-mile, four-day-a-week service between Indianapolis and Chicago with stops in Lafayette, Crawfordsville, Rensselaer and Dyer.
Coupled with the three-day-a-week, long-distance Cardinal from Chicago to New York by way of Washington, D.C., the two trains provide daily service through Lafayette.
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