For the first time in its history, Amtrak Hiawatha Service ridership surpassed 800,000 in 2011. The Hiawatha is the Amtrak train service between downtown Milwaukee and downtown Chicago, with stops in ...

A National Transportation Safety Board hearing examining a collision at a train crossing in the Nevada desert in June 2011 concluded on Tuesday the accident between an Amtrak passenger train and a ...

Following its well-received introduction on high-speed Acela Express trains between Boston and Washington, D.C., and last month’s addition of AmtrakConnect(r) on Amtrak Cascades trains in the Pacific ...

Amtrak confirmed today that it is conducting a soft launch of free WiFi service on its Northeast Regional trains. Service is already available on its Acela trains, some regional trains on the west ...

Amtrak will operate most Northeast Regional trains between Philadelphia and Washington starting today. All Amtrak service between Boston and Philadelphia is canceled due to the extensive flooding, ...

MILWAUKEE -- Amtrak is celebrating the success of its Hiawatha Service which connects Milwaukee to Chicago. In 2011, ridership on the Hiawatha surpassed 800,000 for the first time in its history. The ...

During the budget year that ended on September 30, Amtrak trains carried a record 30.2 million passengers, the most of any year since its inception in 1971. That number reflected a 5 percent increase ...

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Most changes in the new timetable are minor or seasonal, but the publication reflects schedules issued since the Fall-Winter 2010 timetable, including changes to the Keystone Service and Empire ...

FLINT, Michigan -- Ridership on Amtrak's Blue Water service that stops in Flint has been soaring, up by 26.2 percent in the first six months of its fiscal year. Gains on the route, which runs from ...

In 2006, the railroad embarked on a private system in conjunction with T-Mobile to provide Internet connectivity to passengers but that project was deemed infeasible a year later and abandoned. Amtrak ...

Rumor 'round the Twitterverse has it that Amtrak may finally be implementing free WiFi on October 1st -- finally seeing the bet laid down by various plane and bus companies over the past couple years.