WASHINGTON -- Amtrak president George Warrington told the House transportation appropriations committee Feb. 27 that Amtrak would not meet its congressionally mandated goal of becoming operationally ...

Senate supporters say Amtrak’s service is vital and that nowhere in the world does passenger rail turn a profit.The House and Senate disagree on how much to subsidize Amtrak as part of an overdue ...

The Bush administration on Monday urged a dramatic reduction in federal subsidies to Amtrak that almost certainly would require the national passenger rail service to eliminate many long-distance ...

WASHINGTON -- Amtrak next year would receive $521 million -- the same level of funding proposed for it in 2002 -- under the Bush administration's budget for the coming year, which criticized the rail ...

Washington? David Gunn, 65 and a glutton for punishment, left retirement to run Amtrak. His office is in magnificently restored Union Station, a relic of something Gunn knows is gone forever — the era ...

Two successive tugboat collisions with a Susquehanna River railroad bridge on two successive days in 2003 have landed the boat owners and captains in federal court. National Railroad Passenger Corp.

The conventional wisdom on David L. Gunn used to be that he was skilled at fixing broken rail systems but lousy as a politician, a man who could wipe the graffiti off New York's subways but in time ...

WASHINGTON — A record 24 million passengers rode Amtrak last year, 2.7 percent more than in fiscal 2002, the railroad announced Wednesday. Amtrak said that the increase was because of lower fares, ...

Here lie the charred and twisted remains of Amtrak’s City of New Orleans, a 14-car train that smashed into a truck near Bourbonnais, Ill., four years ago, killing 11 passengers. On another track sit ...