A record-breaking 34.5 million people have traveled on an Amtrak train in Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25), which is over 5 percent ...

In 2024, Amtrak, the nationalized passenger rail system of the United States of America, served 32.8 million customers. This marks the highest number of customers served in a single year in Amtrak's ...

Amtrak’s brand new Acela trains enter service under a Trump administration that’s more selective in supporting transit projects It was sunny and temperate as Amtrak’s inaugural Acela Avelia Liberty ...

Amtrak ridership and revenue hit new highs as modernization efforts and bipartisan support fuel U.S. rail growth.

CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on reader support. Amtrak’s oldest new trains are arriving shortly: the NextGen Acela (finally) starts running between Washington and Boston on ...

While the share is higher in Europe, only about 1% of railroad lines in the United States are equipped with overhead wires that carry electricity to power trains. That presents a complicated challenge ...

Amtrak said ridership decreased 3.9% on its only east-west train through Springfield. The long-distance Lake Shore Limited had 382,881 passengers in 2025, down from 398,420 in 2024. The train didn’t ...

AmeriStarRail, which for some time has been proposing privately owned and operated passenger service on the Northeast Corridor, has gone in a new direction with its latest proposal — literally and ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The last passenger train to leave Southern Railway Station in Knoxville left decades ago. A federal study conducted by the Federal Railroad Administration is sparking discussions ...

Brightline has been touted as a success for proving that a privately operated passenger rail service can be commercially viable, but the railroad's record is far from pristine. A year-long ...