Amtrak, America’s national passenger railroad, is on a collision course. It can’t fulfill its mission with the federal aid it gets ($788 million), and it can’t ask passengers to pay much more in fares ...

The Dec. 28 editorial headlined “Amtrak’s Troubled Railroad” made the good point that government underwriting is essential for Amtrak just as it is for air and highway travel. Other observations in ...

Amtrak’s plan to electrify the shoreline railroad corridor between New Haven and Boston is running into heavier opposition as an important deadline for the project approaches. Officials of the ...

As the CSX freight train passed Amtrak's Silver Meteor in the darkness before dawn Monday, a CSX crew member gave the Amtrak train a routine look and saw no problems. "You look good," he radioed the ...

Freight railroads that carry Amtrak passenger trains on their systems have sharply improved their on-time performance, Amtrak President Thomas M. Downs reported Wednesday. Most of Amtrak’s 25,000-mile ...