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Despite federal cuts, the program designed to study new Amtrak routes in Wisconsin are still chugging forward.
Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner stepped down amid rising political pressure, just as the railroad posted record ridership and ...
The overnight Montrealer was discontinued in 1995. The Vermonter took its place and has since transported around 2 million travelers.
the same equipment used on the cross-country Empire Builder route that the Borealis line overlays. The single-level Horizon passenger railcars, now out of service, were built for Amtrak by ...
Amtrak will restore round-trip train service on its Cascades route Tuesday, nearly a week after the company took most of its rail cars on that route out of operation for maintenance. Amtrak last ...
Amtrak removed almost all of its passenger train cars in the Northwest from service this week, turning the growing Cascades railroad corridor into a bus route indefinitely. The national passenger ...
On Wednesday, however, Amtrak said a routine inspection found corrosion on its Horizon trains. Seventy trains across the country, and 26 on the Cascades route, were pulled from service.
A man in custody in the state of Kentucky faces murder charges after a 31-year-old mother of three was found dead in Vancouver last year, police said on Friday. Governor Tina Kotek visited Burns ...
RIGHT NOW, DETERIORATING TRAIN CARS PUT THE BRAKES ON SOME AMTRAK ROUTES. THE TWO MAIN LINES AFFECTED ARE THE HIAWATHA BETWEEN MILWAUKEE AND CHICAGO, AND THE BOREALIS ROUTE BETWEEN CHICAGO AND ...
However, bus substitution will still be chartered for about half of the trains on Amtrak's Hiawatha route, spanning from Chicago to Milwaukee, until further notice. Widespread cancellations of ...
EVERETT — Nearly all trains serving Amtrak Cascades temporarily suspended service after the passenger rail agency discovered corrosion problems in passenger train cars widely used on the route.