A potential freight railroad strike could impact people with upcoming trips on the Amtrak Cascades service. Unions representing train engineers and conductors remain in negotiations. If they don’t resolve their differences, the first national rail strike in 30 years could…
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Nearly four years after an Amtrak train derailed and killed three people on a new route through Pierce County, Washington, service began again on the Point Defiance Bypass. The News Tribune reports Amtrak Cascades trains traveled north and…
Amtrak said on Tuesday the Cascade Service on the Point Defiance bypass will resume on Nov. 18. The first Amtrak Cascades train using the Bypass will leave Seattle at 7:22 a.m.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A preliminary report on an Amtrak train derailment in north-central Montana last month that killed three people and injured dozens more gave no information on the cause of the accident, but said the train’s emergency brakes…
The train that rolls through the city derailed over the weekend in Montana. It killed three people and left many others hurt and stranded.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators are trying to determine the cause of the Amtrak derailment in north-central Montana that killed three people aboard the Empire Builder, traveling from Chicago to Seattle. The train, carrying about 141 passengers and a crew of 16,…
Nicholas Hess, from Atlanta, was working in the back of the observation car on a trip to Seattle when he said things suddenly got "really violent."
In response to the derailment, Amtrak's CEO expressed sorrow for those who died and what the company is doing to help those affected.
The Empire Builder train 7/27 derailed seven of the ten cars at around 4 p.m. in Montana. It's not known how many were injured.
Train travel between New York City and Washington is now faster than ever.
Finn Friedman chose to take the train because she's terrified of flying.
After more than 36 hours in limbo, dozens of passengers exited an Amtrak train that had been stranded in deep snow in Oregon feeling a mix of relief and frustration.
Consider it the 2020 corridor.
Only four of the nation's 41 rail systems required to implement lifesaving technology to prevent train accidents met Monday's deadline, according to the Department of Transportation.
Hundreds of passengers on an Amtrak train that became disconnected had quite a story to tell around the Thanksgiving table.
Amtrak and state transportation officials say they're confident a new safety technology will be installed on the rail corridor between Seattle and Portland ahead of the Dec. 31 deadline.
Enthusiasm. It's not terribly widespread among the traveling masses gearing up for the getting-there part of their journey.
Former "Silicon Valley" star Todd Joseph "T.J." Miller is facing a federal charge that he allegedly called in a fake bomb threat from an Amtrak train, officials said Tuesday.
All criminal charges will move forward against the conductor of an Amtrak train that derailed in 2015, a judge ruled Tuesday, according to an official in the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office. The 2015 crash killed eight people and injured 100.
Sleep apnea led to two commuter railroad accidents within 13 weeks of one another, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday. The NTSB said the sleep disorder caused engineer fatigue and that in both accidents, engineers failed to stop their trains before reaching the end of a terminating track.
An Amtrak train inadvertently diverted to a side track traveled for 659 feet before colliding head-on Sunday with a freight train at 50 mph in South Carolina, federal officials said Monday.
Sunday's fatal crash shows the risks when freight and passenger trains share the same tracks.
Sunday's train collision in South Carolina was the fourth fatal incident involving an Amtrak train since the start of December.
An Amtrak passenger train was mistakenly diverted to a side track and crashed into an unmanned freight train in South Carolina, killing two Amtrak employees and injuring 116 people, federal officials said.
