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

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

MOUNT AIRY, Md. (AP) — A 13-year-old boy died after he was trapped in a storm drain in Maryland during heavy rainfall and ...

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

AmeriStarRail is proposing an Amtrak train route that can transport people between Los Angeles and New York in 72 hours. See where it stops in Ohio.

Passenger train ridership in the U.S. is up, but so are delays, according to Amtrak's top brass during a quarterly Zoom board ...

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

A train route from New Jersey to California? AmeriStarRail proposes new train route that would make the cross-country trip in ...

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

This one-of-a-kind feature serves as a vital part of one of Amtrak's most iconic routes, shaving over 100 miles off the ...

Amtrak deputy chief financial officer Costin Corneanu will step up to the CFO role on Aug. 4 as part of a "planned transition," the rail service provider announced.