The Borealis, the passenger train that runs exclusively between St. Paul and Chicago, has been a popular draw for riders over the last two years — so popular, in fact, that ...

Amtrak will temporarily shut down a section of its tracks just south of Washington DC's Union Station for nine days in October, disrupting train service between DC and Virginia. The outage will begin ...

An overflow crowd packed into a South Side union training hall Thursday night and loudly rejected the plan sketched out by Amtrak officials for a massive new maintenance center in their neighborhood.

Jermont Terry joined the CBS 2 team in October 2019. He's born and raised on Chicago's South Side. He's happy to return home to report on his community after 18 years of uncovering stories across the ...

Amtrak will add a second daily round trip to its Pennsylvanian service between Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia and New York City. The new service will launch sometime later this year, according ...

My first long-distance train ride started on a rainy summer night in Kansas City about 60 years ago. There, on its way to California from Chicago, a double-decker Santa Fe train arrived, now part of ...

Passengers look out the windows of the viewing car of a bilevel Superliner train near Newark in South Bay. Amtrak plans to transition to single-level long-distance trains throughout its national ...

Evie Carrick is a writer and editor who’s lived in five countries and visited well over 50. She now splits her time between Colorado and Paris, ensuring she doesn’t have to live without skiing or L’As ...

An Amtrak work train erupted in flames near New York’s Penn Station on Friday morning, injuring five people and disrupting rail service into midtown for thousands of commuters. The two-alarm blaze ...

I spent 30 hours in a bedroom on an Amtrak Viewliner train and 53 hours in an Amtrak Superliner bedroom. The key difference ...

The Amtrak Superliner Bedroom is 6.5 feet wide by 7.5 feet long — just over twice the size of a standard roomette — and accommodates two passengers with two full-size beds, an armchair, and a private ...