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 oldest new trains are arriving shortly: the NextGen Acela (finally) starts running between Washington and Boston on August 28. Ordered in 2016 for $1.8 billion, the first trains arrived from ...

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 ...

View post: I Raced Through the Colorado Mountains in the La Sportiva Prodigio Pro and Now I Don’t Want To Run in Any Other Trail Shoe Millions of Americans travel around the country on a daily basis.

The U.S. has the most railroad tracks of any country, but we're not known for our passenger trains. A look at America's rail system and the trouble with passenger trains. Japan, China and many ...

Nearly 50 years after the departure of passenger trains connecting Ohio’s major cities, an Amtrak plan to connect Ohio’s major cities through passenger rail could be gaining traction. The Ohio Rail ...

Ethan Oliver is a 22-year old from Pottsboro, a Texas town of fewer than 3,000 near the Oklahoma border. The nearest Amtrak station is a 90-minute drive away, in Dallas. That didn’t stop him and four ...

In this photo from the Allen County Historical Society, an Amtrak passenger train makes a stop at the Lima station. Amtrak served Lima from 1975 to 1990. Courtesy of Allen County Historical Society ...

Chattanooga officials have been advancing planning for a passenger rail line that would connect Atlanta to several Tennessee cities.