Amtrak has turned down a private company’s proposal for a transcontinental passenger train that would have included an ...

As Amtrak, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, approaches its golden anniversary in 2021, it is quite apparent that it has squandered opportunities to mature into a stable and useful ...

The new trains can reach up to 160 miles per hour and have 27 percent greater seating capacity, in comparison to existing Amtrak rolling stock. (Courtesy Amtrak) Through 2027, Amtrak will gradually ...

Amtrak issued an apology after 110 passengers were left stranded at Washington's Union Station after their boarding gate was never opened. "On Dec. 26, Amtrak train 66 traveling from Roanoke, Va., to ...

"We're working really hard to put a better product out there every day, increase capacity and get schedules that are more convenient for customers to take," he also noted. Transportation Secretary ...

Emmy Award-winning journalist Kris Van Cleave is the senior transportation correspondent for CBS News based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as a national correspondent reporting for all CBS ...

Selling Amtrak would mean giving up right-of-way on most train routes across the country, the paper said, and past efforts to find private backers for passenger rail service have been unsuccessful.

GRAND RAPIDS -- While waiting for her son, who is sick from cancer treatments, Marty Davis wanted answers from Amtrak. Why would a scheduled four-hour train trip from Chicago to Grand Rapids take 16 ...

It's not exactly a bullet train. A new high-speed Amtrak train has officially made its first tracks along the Northeast Corridor. The NextGen Acela had its inaugural ride from Washington, D.C., to New ...

Last week, Amtrak announced a call for contractors to bid on a proposal to modernize and expand the railroad’s main concourse at Union Station in Washington, D.C. Union Station is Amtrak’s ...