Amtrak should be asking itself a $7 billion question about the future of its long-distance trains. Should it spend that ...

NEWARK, N.J. — Amtrak has unveiled at a plant in California the first of 70 new locomotives, marking what the national passenger railroad service said it hopes will be a new era of better reliability, ...

Three years ago, Amtrak announced it had ordered 70 new locomotives that would serve the Northeast Corridor. Now, they're finally starting to arrive. Earlier this spring, two of the locomotives ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) on Dec. 11 reported that more than 18,000 frontline Amtrak workers will each receive a $900 bonus “to celebrate a record year of ridership and revenue.” ...

People accustomed to catching a morning train to Washington, D.C., and other points north will have to adjust their ...

More than 31 million passengers rode Amtrak in the 2012 fiscal year, generating a record $2.02 billion in ticket revenue. Amtrak says it will be able to pay back a $466 million federal loan for the ...