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Amtrak last week took 26 Horizon rail cars off its Cascades route between Eugene, Ore., and Vancouver, B.C., after rust began to accumulate on the exterior and structural steel.
Amtrak has unveiled improvements to its Auto Train service, including modernized interiors and an adjusted schedule with earlier departure times to avoid rush hour. ... Sleeping cars and Sightseer ...
Dominique St.-Fleur, who is on his first Amtrak overnight train ride from Charlotte, N.C., sits inside Amtrak Train 41’s cafe car after a meeting, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. He passes the time by ...
MORTON GROVE, Ill. (CBS) -- An Amtrak train headed for Union Station hit an unoccupied car on the tracks in Morton Grove Thursday night, just after witnesses pulled out the suspected drunken ...
The service began in 1971 with the Auto-Train Corporation, which Amtrak acquired in 1983 and has been running ever since.With four coaches and nine sleeping cars, the Auto Train transported 27,237 ...
Shipments of the cars to Amtrak should begin by the end of 2024. The $4.9 billion Amtrak contract with Siemens Mobility Inc. is the largest in the company’s history.
An Amtrak train travelling from Boston to Brunswick, Maine, collided with a car Saturday morning in Andover, resulting in service delays and minor injuries to the driver, officials said.
Sleeping car, 3 accessible bedrooms, 2 non-accessible bedrooms; 32-inch path ends. Non-accessible roomette sleeper; Non-accessible bedroom sleeper; Utility car (crew-baggage). The 9-car bilevel ...
Amtrak said it is investigating why the train derailed at 8:47 a.m. while moving “at a low speed” in the tunnel south of Union Station. Northeast Regional Train 86 had been traveling from Norfolk.
WASHINGTON — Amtrak service south of Washington, D.C. is expected to be restored Wednesday morning. This comes after a pair of Amtrak trains derailed at the entrance of Union Station Tuesday ...
On May 16, Amtrak train 30 was traveling from Chicago to Washington, DC at approximately 9:25 p.m. ET when an unoccupied vehicle obstructing the track came into contact with the train west of ...
If you own a private rail car, you can take an exclusive journey with Amtrak. Studio One-One/Getty Images Slow travel is all the rage these days, and for train enthusiasts in the United States ...