A railroad connecting New York City and Los Angeles could go straight through Harrisburg. Dubbed The Transcontinental Chief, ...

During a trip from Miami to Tampa, I learned that traveling by Amtrak isn't much cheaper or faster than driving or flying.

Amtrak and Union Pacific have reached a settlement in their dispute over performance of the Sunset Limited and have asked the ...

About 300 Amtrak passengers aboard the San Francisco Zephyr got a rude awakening on a 1982 morning near Emerson, Iowa. As ...

Delaware-based group AmeriStarRail is proposing a new Amtrak train route that can transport people between Los Angeles and New York in 72 hours.

Bronx elected officials are expressing frustration with delays in constructing the four new Metro-North stations on the ...

Amtrak hit a record-breaking 15% increase in its ridership in 2024, serving 32.8 million customers. Just after its newest ...

An on-line-only public Amtrak board of directors meeting today (July 31, 2025) lasted only 45 minutes and concluded with a ...

More than two and a half years after Amtrak called on the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to initiate an investigation ...

MOUNT AIRY, Md. (AP) — A 13-year-old boy died after he was trapped in a storm drain in Maryland during heavy rainfall and flooding on the East Coast that also led to rescues from cars that were ...

The Bay Area Transportation Authority (BATA), Amtrak, Trinity Metro, the Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD), the Virginia Railway Express (VRE) and WTS International have made new ...