As Americans by the millions pile into planes, trains and automobiles for the Thanksgiving weekend, the panel charged with charting the future of the troubled Amtrak rail system decided to stay in ...

A group of black workers sued Amtrak Thursday in federal court in Washington, D.C., accusing the railroad of discriminating against black managers in its hiring and promotions and of ignoring a ...

The nation’s first high-speed train is scheduled to whiz along Connecticut’s shoreline in late 1999, carrying business travelers from Boston to New York in three hours and from New York to Washington, ...

Last November, after prolonged and sometimes difficult House-Senate negotiations, Congress passed a $2.2 billion “tax refund” to be used for funding Amtrak’s capital needs over a five-year period.

Long Island Rail Road commuters wondering why their trains have been so late should look no further than Amtrak. LIRR documents released yesterday say Amtrak mishaps at or near Penn Station were ...

WASHINGTON — Amtrak is expected to receive $555 million for the next fiscal year under a Senate compromise reached yesterday within a larger bill that would set the amount of money that can be spent ...

WASHINGTON — Pity poor Amtrak. Nearly every time officials of the national passenger rail service come to Congress, hat in hand, they are presented with a threat of slashed funding and a lecture on ...

Regarding Joseph Vranich’s Dec. 23 commentary “All aboard for a tax ripoff” (Op-Ed) about Amtrak and the tax-credit arrangement recently approved by Congress and signed by the president: This ...

The party is over for thousands of termites that had made their home at the Amtrak station on Hollywood Boulevard. The pesky creatures were gassed out by a Lauderhill pest control company that tented ...