Service, starting on Aug. 18, will connect New Orleans and Mobile, Ala., by train for the first time since Hurricane Katrina ...

Passenger trains have been stopping in Hutchinson, Kan., since the early 1870s. But the agricultural center of 42,000 is in danger of losing the one that still stops there every day.

Amtrak does have routes beyond those areas, though, and now Apple Maps shows them, too. This includes routes in the western parts of the US, the PNW, the midwest, and the southern states.

Amtrak’s Chief remains a popular route, with 354,912 riders during the 2011 fiscal year. That’s a 3.7 percent increase from 2010. Nearly 48,000 people got on and off the Chief in Kansas in ...

After more than 30 years, Wichita is finally back on the Amtrak map. ... This Thruway Bus Connection is one of only two such connections between Amtrak routes in the western U.S.

Amtrak has released a map of an expanded US rail network that it says it can build with $80 billion from President Joe Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan. The light-blue lines represent what ...

Amtrak has proposed spending its share of the infrastructure funding on more than 50 new routes, but those routes are significantly slower than typical car travel between the cities — sometimes ...

Amtrak plans to add routes to up to 160 communities and improve existing services over the next 15 years. By 2035, it aims to carry 20 million more passengers than the 32 million recorded in 2019.

Amtrak will restore traditional dining car service on six western routes and the Auto Train on June 23. In addition, the railroad has restored daily service for its East Coast long distance trains ...

The congressional budget-cutting has put considerable pressure on the Intercity division, Amtrak’s biggest money loser, critics claim, a dumping ground for routes no one else wants.