As millions of Americans crowd highways and airports this Thanksgiving week, Amtrak is enjoying an unexpected surge: a record 36.2 million passengers in fiscal year 2025, up a remarkable 10 percent ...
Emmy Award-winning journalist Kris Van Cleave is the senior transportation correspondent for CBS News based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as a national correspondent reporting for all CBS ...
East Coast travel may get a little quicker. Amtrak debuted a faster new train Thursday called "NextGen Acela" that will be able to hit a top speed of 160 mph. Amtrak's original high-speed Acela trains ...
Americans are supporting train travel in droves. Newly released Amtrak statistics show that the national rail operator closed Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) with record ridership and revenue, marking another ...
A quarter century after the Acela began whisking passengers between Washington, D.C.; New York; and Boston, the Acela’s slightly faster replacement finally began service at the end of August. But the ...
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES are rarely known for the quality of their TikTok output. Most avoid the network entirely, preferring X, Elon Musk’s social-media site. An exception is Amtrak, America’s national ...
You could almost mistake it for an ad. Last week, the far-right Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was on the Amtrak Crescent traveling from the nation’s capital to her home state, and she ...
If you're looking for a world-class train route that's right in the heart of the US, look no further. This is a bucket-list ...
Dozens of birds fly over the still bayou as the train rushes past, leaving nothing but blue skies over the marshland. In no time this serene scene is replaced by bustling cityscape as I arrive in New ...