Amtrak’s 2012 capital-spending plan includes work on several major Northeast Corridor infrastructure projects, as well as facility upgrades in other parts of the country, says Joseph Boardman, the railroad’s president.

Boardman told reporters at a Jan. 11 briefing at Amtrak’s Washington, D.C., headquarters, “We’re actually moving forward, we think, in a pretty aggressive way with an agenda to build for the future, while we strengthen our current services.”