Amtrak's retired HHP8 electric locomotives - nicknamed "Hippos" during their relatively short operating life - are nearing their return to service as cab cars. The company operated ...

SILVANA, Wash — An Amtrak Cascades train struck a downed tree during Tuesday's windstorm, causing significant damage to the cab car. Train 519 was on its way from Vancouver, B.C. to Seattle when it ...

The end may not be near — given Amtrak’s current, chronic capacity shortage, exacerbated by last spring’s sudden withdrawal of the Horizon coach fleet — but the company has begun the lengthy process ...

AUBURN, Wash. (KIRO) - A driver and passenger in a tractor-trailer that made a wrong turn say they had seconds to escape before a train plowed into the truck, completely destroying its cab. Police say ...