Amtrak watchdog warns of delays, extra costs for Frederick Douglass Tunnel project

Long before Amtrak secured billions in federal funding to dig the future Frederick Douglass Tunnel beneath Baltimore, the company made several potentially costly missteps, a government watchdog said this week. Amtrak’s Office of Inspector General said the company in late 2022 initially assigned responsibility for the $6 billion rail expansion to a single person who lacked the resources to oversee a project of such magnitude.