Amtrak officials said demand for the state-sponsored Borealis trains between St. Paul and Chicago continues to exceed expectations in its first full year of service.
Amtrak officials are warning that the Heartland Flyer between Dallas-Fort Worth and Oklahoma City faces “imminent service suspension” by Oct. 1 unless Texas coughs up funding.
Amtrak trains were involved in roughly 800 train strikes from fiscal year 2020 through 2023, resulting in 594 deaths and 279 injuries, a new report found.
Amtrak’s Office of Inspector General is detailing what it called “the largest employee conspiracy” the office has ever investigated, a widespread scheme in which at least 119 employees conspired with New York health care providers to bilk Amtrak’s health care plan of more than $12 million from 2019 to 2022.
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced an agreement between the Federal Railroad Administration and Amtrak to terminate the $63.9 million grant awarded to Amtrak under the Corridor Identification and Development Program for the Amtrak Texas High-Speed Rail Corridor, previously known as the Texas Central Railway project.
Amtrak and NJ Transit joined New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy for a working summit ahead of the busy summer 2025 travel season in New Jersey and hoping to avoid another “Summer of Hell.”
Amtrak will stop funding its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives immediately and will require employees to work from the office four days a week starting March 3, Bloomberg reported.
After receiving federal money to expand passenger rail across Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is taking the next step in making the Scranton to New York Penn Station Passenger Rail Corridor project happen.