WASHINGTON — The Acela Express, Amtrak’s much-ballyhooed hope for high-speed train travel, was shut down indefinitely Friday because of brake problems, leaving thousands of travelers scrambling for ...

Amtrak ridership grew by 10 percent on average this year on the four routes through Illinois partially paid for by the state, officials announced Wednesday as the national debate over the passenger ...

An Amtrak passenger-train derailment Sunday morning in the Columbia River Gorge injured several passengers and cut train service between Spokane and Portland for the foreseeable future. The derailment ...

Amtrak's operating subsidies would be cut but the railroad would receive more money for improvements to tracks and equipment under a bipartisan proposal to be considered by a Senate committee today.

Amtrak would compete with other railroads to run long-distance passenger trains under a controversial proposal, advanced by the nation’s top transportation official Monday in Chicago, to reform the ...

WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- Amtrak plans to put more of its high-speed Acela trains back in service next week, enough for nine round trips a day between Boston and Washington. The national rail ...

President Bush’s fiscal 2006 budget plan recommends eliminating all federal funding for Amtrak, which in fiscal 2005 totaled approximately $1.2 billion. Implementation of this plan would likely have ...

WASHINGTON -- Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta is urging Amtrak to immediately cut costs saying the railroad could be as much as $40 million in debt by Sept. 30. In a letter sent late Wednesday ...

WASHINGTON — It was called the American Flyer, and its goals were ambitious: to speed train travel between Northeastern cities, steal customers from air shuttles, provide the model for a nationwide ...

Two Orange County Sheriff’s Deputies stood watch over pedestrians Wednesday morning at the train track crossing where Carlos Gomez was hit and killed by an Amtrak train Tuesday. The 18-year-old was ...