The nation’s passenger railroad is adapting to White House priorities, such as by dropping high-speed rail projects.

For decades, Americans all over the country have taken rides in trains pulled by a legend and perhaps didn’t even know it.

Tickets are now available for new twice-daily Amtrak intercity train service starting Aug. 18 between Mobile, Ala., and New ...

A proposed private passenger train will make the Los Angeles to New York City trip in less than 72 hours – and carry ...

AmeriStarRail, which for some time has been proposing privately owned and operated passenger service on the Northeast ...

Amtrak’s Mardi Gras Service between Mobile and New Orleans will launch on Aug. 18, ending the lengthy effort to restore ...

Answer: It’s actually the freight. The federal government owns the track. Amtrak just pays a service fee. (Thanks to Ed Phinney.) ...

There is little debate that Amtrak is struggling. Recently, a train originating in Chicago arrived in Fort Worth, Texas, nearly 18 hours late, and was canceled the rest of the way to San Antonio.

In late July, the Department of Justice took up a cause it hadn’t touched since the late 1970s: It sued a freight railroad for delaying Amtrak trains. In the lawsuit, the DOJ alleges that on ...

A similar case, which Amtrak brought against Union Pacific in December 2022 over freight train interference with the Sunset Limited, is making its way through the Surface Transportation Board.

That came even after Amtrak and the freight railroad agreed to add 90 minutes to the scheduled length of the route in 2021, even though no extra stops or extra distance were added to the route.

In one instance, an Amtrak train just 10 miles outside New Orleans was delayed for nearly an hour because Norfolk Southern forced it to travel behind a slow-moving freight train.