VIA Rail’s plans call for new designs for that railroad, including windows that wrap around at the top (like those on Amtrak’s Superliner lounge cars) and dome cars for the now twice-weekly Canadian ...

Amtrak appointed its top high-speed rail executive Andy Byford to oversee Penn Station’s reconstruction plan late last week, ...

Sellouts in coach and high prices in sleeping cars, if space is available at all, are the rule rather than exception in a ...

The ongoing shortage of Superliner equipment has been reported ... It is difficult to believe that Amtrak would have given a new brand to the combined and truncated route, if it was truly expected to ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 26, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. The Tribune's review noted ...

But on a warm day in June, I stepped onto the California Zephyr, one of Amtrak’s long-haul Superliners ... back home didn’t mean much to their new countrymen. So they moonlighted as ...

Superliner coach upper level on Amtrak Auto Train. (Photo Credit: Amtrak Media) To help improve the experience, Amtrak unveiled modernized interiors for the Coach, Dining, Sleeping cars and Sightseer ...

But Amtrak also continues to try new things. It’s in the process of upgrading the interiors of some of its Superliner and Viewliner cars. It has started rolling out new locomotives — the first ...