Career
- President — Amtrak
Biography
Paul Reistrup was the second president of Amtrak from 1975 to 1978.
Before joining Amtrak, he had extensive passenger rail service experience with the Baltimore & Ohio and Illinois Central railroads.
Reistrup’s accomplishments at Amtrak include purchasing the Beech Grove, Indiana, heavy maintenance facility from Penn Central, introducing new single-level Amfleet cars into revenue service and gaining control of most of the Northeast Corridor between Washington and Boston. He also ordered bi-level Superliner cars for long-distance services, experimented with converting older equipment to head-end power, and initiated a rebuilding of the Chicago rail yards.
