Amtrak

At the end of March, officials for Amtrak announced they were suspending charter services or special train trips on Amtrak lines on April 30. The announcement puts in jeopardy the annual fall New River Train leaf excursions between Huntington and Hinton, which contribute about $5 million to the Mountain ...

Folks from the Chicago-area who want to come to Benton Harbor next month for the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship will have a new way to do so thanks to Amtrak. Spokesperson Mark Magliari tells WSJM News Amtrak will run a special train to the area on Saturday, May 26. The train will go from ...

A waiter explained that Amtrak used to get a lot of complaints about the food. So many complaints, in fact, that Amtrak officials hired a coterie of top chefs to reformulate the dining room's menu. The result is a sparse dinner menu of tasty dishes — usually steak, one fish item, a land and sea (surf and turf) dish ...

SEATTLE (AP) - Seattle police say a pedestrian has been killed after being struck by an Amtrak passenger train in Seattle. Police tell KOMO-TV that the person died Saturday morning in the collision that occurred just before 8 a.m. The person's name hasn't been released. Amtrak spokeswoman Christina ...

Amtrak plans to eliminate traditional dining-car meals on its trains that stop in Toledo effective June 1, instead offering “new and contemporary” — but cold — food to its sleeping-car passengers in their rooms. The change for the Chicago-New York/Boston and Chicago-Washington trains, announced in a ...

The Economist reported that maintaining dining cars on all of Amtrak's lines cost the rail operator $834 million over a 10-year period. Even as Amtrak ridership has slowly regained ground in the past couple years (2017, according to the company, was a record year), it's still struggling to fill seats on its trains.

A malfunction on a vertical lift bridge caused delays Thursday morning on Metra's SouthWest Service and Heritage Corridor lines and three Amtrak trains, officials said. The bridge over the South Branch of the Chicago River was not locking properly, according to a spokeswoman for Amtrak, which operates ...

Ex-Florida Congressman John Luigi Mica, a foodie who spent a considerable amount of time when he was Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee questioning Amtrak's food service costs, must be very pleased with Amtrak's announcement that it's getting rid of dining cars on ...

What federal investigators have called a “weak safety culture” at Amtrak is not improving, an incident uncovered by the Jacksonville Business Journal indicates. Amtrak has suffered a string of safety incidents in recent months that have sparked lawsuits and federal investigations. The incidents come after ...

ROANOKE, Va. - The future of one of the Roanoke Valley's biggest tourist attractions could be at risk. A new Amtrak policy, banning trips by special trains, is threatening to put the brakes on excursions by the beloved 611 steam engine. The company is allowing some exceptions, but it's not clear yet whether ...

The sun clips a mountain ridge, washing the winter wonderland in a buttery yellow as the morning Amtrak train makes its way to Essex. The train chugs along the tracks, its belly swaying subtly back and forth, full of mostly sleeping passengers. The observation car is a different story: the curved panes of ...

... service in the Philadelphia region and beyond as a strong storm battered the area Friday. Residual delays and suspensions continued to riddle public transit systems Saturday in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Amtrak began modified service on its Northeast Corridor Line at 11 a.m. Saturday.

Amtrak Chief Says Efforts Underway to Preserve Vermont Train. The head of the Amtrak passenger rail service says efforts are underway to help ensure the service on the Vermonter train will continue and receive safety improvements. March 3, 2018, at 1:14 p.m.. Amtrak Chief Says Efforts Underway to Preserve Vermont ...

Coaster and Amtrak services between Oceanside Transit Center and Santa Fe Depot will be closed the next two weekends, March 3-4, and 10-11. The North County Transit District (NCTD) said the closures are due to construction. The rail will re-open with its regularly scheduled services on Monday, but ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Amtrak service was slowly getting back to normal on Saturday, a day after a powerful nor'easter forced it to come to a halt along the Northeast Corridor. Amtrak resumed service on modified schedules between Washington, D.C. and New York City, but warned travelers to expect ...

More than 1,500 flights were canceled during Friday's storm, and Amtrak canceled all trains on its vital northeastern corridor line from Boston to Washingtn D.C. Cargo trucks were restricted on nearly every bridge in the area, and the region's three major commuter rails all saw crippling delays and service ...

Earlier this week Amtrak officials said they were considering pulling service from the Green Mountains since the Vermonter line is not equipped with PTC or Positive Train Control, a technology that can prevent some crashes by automatically stopping trains before impact. Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson was ...

Photo – TSA. Amtrak and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) have partnered to test new devices that can help detect explosives, including suicide vests. ... The technology could be expanded to other Amtrak locations and transit agencies to help safeguard against terrorist threats. In 2017, TSA ...

Amtrak's engineer and conductor were killed as a result of the incident. The engineer of the stopped CSX train had exited the lead locomotive before the Amtrak train entered the siding and was not injured. The CSX conductor saw the Amtrak train approaching the siding and ran to the back of the locomotive ...

In light of recent rail accidents in Washington and Virginia, Amtrak wants to pull service where PTCs are not installed. That could include Vermont's Amtrak Rail service-- the Vermonter and the Ethan Allen Express. "It's clear that during our 47-year history we've underinvested in rail, especially in aspects of ...

A former Amtrak official caught steering $30,000 in business to his wife's photo company to take pictures of families in front of a Polar Express exhibit narrowly dodged a prison sentence Tuesday after a judge said he was inclined to impose one. Instead, U.S. District Judge Charles Kocoras ordered ...

The Transportation Security Administration and Amtrak are testing new technology to detect concealed explosives, the TSA said Tuesday. The equipment, known as "stand off explosive detection technology" can detect an explosive when an individual passes by the device, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer ...