For decades, Americans all over the country have taken rides in trains pulled by a legend and perhaps didn’t even know it.

One of the country's last remaining steam locomotives made a visit to Milwaukee.The Southern Pacific 44-49 rolled into the Amtrak station Sunday afternoon.The locomotive was built in 1941.It ...

TACOMA — When he first realized his Amtrak locomotive would roll at 80 mph into a sharp left curve, engineer Steven Brown kept faith he’d make it to the other side. “I thought I was going to ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The engine of an Amtrak passenger train caught fire Wednesday south of Union Station. Smoke was pouring out of the engine, which was stopped at Roosevelt and Canal. The cause of ...

A still from a bystander's video taken right before an Amtrak train collided with a car hauler semi-truck in Thackerville, Oklahoma, on Oct. 15, 2021.

BNSF, Southwest Service, Heritage Corridor Metra trains delayed 00:30. CHICAGO (CBS) -- Trains on three Metra commuter lines were delayed Friday afternoon, after an Amtrak locomotive derailed at ...

Amtrak and Siemens show off a shiny, new Cities Sprinter locomotive at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station right across the platform from Amtrak’s famed Acela high-speed train.

The Illinois Railway Museum has added two former Amtrak diesels — an F40PHR and SDP40F — to its collection. Dynamic Rail ...

ASLRRA attended the Jan. 12 unveiling of Amtrak’s locomotive commemorating OLE’s 50th anniversary. “Over the past five decades, Operation Lifesaver and its safety partners have helped reduce railroad ...

No less a locomotive enthusiast than Vice President Joe Biden traveled to 30th Street Station in Philadelphia this morning for the inauguration of the ACS-64. (ACS stands for Amtrak Cities Sprinter.) ...

The new Siemens Charger locomotive, one of eight that went into service in November 2017 on the Amtrak Cascades line. WSDOT A derailed train is seen on southbound Interstate 5 on Monday, Dec. 18 ...

Since I moved to Vermont a year ago, I’ve both driven my Tesla Model 3 and taken an Amtrak train to visit family in Pennsylvania. Here’s why I prefer to take the train in the Northeast ...