Scranton-NYC Train

First-term congressman also says Congress needs to extend President Donald Trump's first-term tax cuts and pass a 5-year farm bill. He also says he'll fight to build the Scranton-New York City passenger train and to keep the Tobyhanna Army Depot open.

With President Donald Trump's administration slashing federal spending, first-term Republican congressman offers his most full-throated public support of a project that Amtrak officials wholeheartedly back. Amtrak would operate the train.

The Lackawanna County commissioners voted to appoint former U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright to the Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority board.

Plan should be complete by 2028, when Amtrak hoped the service might begin.