Amtrak officials also proposed upgrading tracks and increasing capacity on the popular Northeast Corridor (between Washington and Boston), with the costs to be paid by all users, including Amtrak, ...
Amtrak and the team working to refurbish Baltimore’s historic Pennsylvania Station are still at a standstill since a dispute over construction costs arose this April. After completing work on the ...
President Biden headed Friday to Philadelphia to celebrate Amtrak’s 50-year anniversary and push for better funding of rail service that has a decades-long history of red ink. As a former senator from ...
The three-year wait for Amtrak’s overdue new Acela train fleet has cost the railroad $140 million and counting, documents show, a setback for a company that has vowed to improve its stewardship of ...
Amtrak costs individual States almost $100 million per year on commuter rail contracts that private companies can more efficiently fulfill, according to a new House committee report. What’s more, the ...
Passenger rail enthusiasts like to point to the shabby service and equipment on Amtrak in order to lobby for more government investment in passenger rail. In the $1 trillion Infrastructure Investment ...