In 2024, Amtrak, the nationalized passenger rail system of the United States of America, served 32.8 million customers. This marks the highest number of customers served in a single year in Amtrak's ...

Amtrak’s oldest new trains are arriving shortly: the NextGen Acela (finally) starts running between Washington and Boston on August 28. Ordered in 2016 for $1.8 billion, the first trains arrived from ...

While the share is higher in Europe, only about 1% of railroad lines in the United States are equipped with overhead wires that carry electricity to power trains. That presents a complicated challenge ...

View post: I Raced Through the Colorado Mountains in the La Sportiva Prodigio Pro and Now I Don’t Want To Run in Any Other Trail Shoe Millions of Americans travel around the country on a daily basis.

The U.S. has the most railroad tracks of any country, but we're not known for our passenger trains. A look at America's rail system and the trouble with passenger trains. Japan, China and many ...

Spencer also says that ASR can operate profitably; a standard that few passenger trains have attained since the onset of competition from highways and airlines during the past century. His letter said ...

Ethan Oliver is a 22-year old from Pottsboro, a Texas town of fewer than 3,000 near the Oklahoma border. The nearest Amtrak station is a 90-minute drive away, in Dallas. That didn’t stop him and four ...

Chattanooga officials have been advancing planning for a passenger rail line that would connect Atlanta to several Tennessee cities.