On May 21, the first ever Amtrak Borealis train departed St. Paul for Chicago. With passenger rail in the United States in decline for decades prior, the opening of a new route was a historic moment.

Local officials and Metra marked the completion Friday of the commuter rail line’s Homewood station, rebuilt after a 20-month ...

[Photo: Amtrak] They’re designed to be a better ride than the existing two-decade-old Acela trains, which carried nearly three million passengers ... is limited by aging train tracks and curves ...

VIA Rail Canada will re-equip its long-distance, regional, and remote-service trains with new single-level equipment – ...

The news comes as demand for passenger rail service continues ... Launched one new train service and expanded four additional routes Amtrak said it is continuing to build new bridges, tunnels ...

MONTREAL— VIA Rail Canada has issued a formal “Request for Qualification” for prospective carbuilders to replace ...

The $100 million project in New Rochelle would be mainly funded through grants and federal and state funds with support from ...

Across the nation tickets were being purchased. At Chicago’s Union Station, in Walnut Ridge, Ark. and in Taylor, Texas, ...

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A newly launched bullet train in Japan is delivering passengers from Tokyo to Fukui prefecture (and vice versa ... To compare that to U.S. train infrastructure, four years is around how long it takes ...