A new Amtrak line will start services in the Gulf Coast in just a few days. The rail service is restoring regional passenger routes. This one connects New Orleans, Louisiana, to Mobile, Alabama. It ...

UPDATE (7:15 p.m.): — Mobile saw the arrival of 137 new tourists on Monday morning as the Mardi Gras Amtrak line arrived for the first time in years. The passengers weren’t just from New Orleans.

Amtrak revises its long-distance fleet replacement strategy. Also, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) ...

U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle warned on Monday that planned SEPTA cuts could force Amtrak to cut the Keystone Service line from Philadelphia to Harrisburg. The line, which continues on from Philadelphia to ...

Amtrak is now repairing the East River Tunnels between New York Penn Station and Queens, as we have been reporting. That project has brought service reductions, including on the Empire Service trains ...

FILE - An Amtrak train departs 30th Street Station in Philadelphia on Oct. 27, 2021. As Philadelphia’s SEPTA prepares to eliminate regional rail service on several lines it leases from Amtrak, the ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Amtrak officials warned this week that Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) funding shortfalls, which have been exacerbated by the delay in passage of a new ...

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