With the coldest air of the season expected to blanket the Chicago area in coming days, Amtrak has preemptively canceled ...

If you’re interested in trading planes for trains, here’s the story of our family’s first Amtrak Empire Builder experience – in coach! After logging thousands of miles on trains with my ...

Amtrak’s “new normal” for handling anticipated severe weather — cancelling trains rather than operating them into a region ...

Nearly $39 million in federal funding will be going to Amtrak’s Borealis Service, which runs through Wisconsin on the route ...

Earlier this year, another columnist at the Minnesota Daily wrote about the many flaws of Amtrak and the Empire Builder. However, the inception of Borealis has solved nearly all of the mentioned ...

Several carriages from the Amtrak Empire Builder passenger service derailed at about 16:00 local time (22:00 GMT) near the town of Joplin. Images on social media show train cars on their sides and ...

Incremental upgrades to Amtrak Cascades would have a lot of benefits, including for Sounder, the Coast Starlight, and the ...

This federal investment will support new service rollout efforts of the Borealis service which fills existing schedule gaps ...

The other train Amtrak operates in the corridor, the Chicago-Seattle/Portland Empire Builder, also added 40,000 new riders in the fiscal year, but we don’t know where on the route those riders ...

The Borealis launched in May, Amtrak's second daily service between St. Paul and Chicago. It complements the company's Empire Builder, which passes through St. Paul on its journey between Seattle and ...

Leaders say that it fills schedule gaps from the Amtrak Empire Builder trains. The funding will support the rest of the second year of service along with years three through six with the states of ...