Amtrak’s NextGen Acela entered service in August 2025, marking the most significant upgrade to U.S. high-speed rail in more than 2 decades. The new trains replace the original Acela, which first ...

UK: Great Western Railway has announced that its Class 230 prototype battery trainset is to enter passenger service on the ...

WASHINGTON — Two U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would extend to passenger train crew members the same legal protections that exist for airline flight crews and attendants. U.S. Sens. Tammy ...

AmeriStarRail (ASR), through Chief Operating Officer Scott R. Spencer, has proposed a new fleet for Amtrak’s long-distance trains, the latest of several proposals that ASR has made recently. Spencer ...

WASHINGTON — Fourteen Democratic senators have asked the leadership of the Senate Appropriations Committee to fund a major program for passenger rail projects, saying House Republicans have proposed ...

A record number of people rode North Carolina’s state-subsidized Amtrak trains in 2025, the fourth straight year of record ridership since the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly 740,000 boarded Piedmont and ...

A nonprofit working on a long-term plan to create a passenger rail line that would run from Petoskey to Detroit is seeking additional public input on the idea. On Tuesday, Jan. 7, the nonprofit ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A Waymo was caught on camera driving down Phoenix light rail tracks this week, forcing a passenger to flee the car before it continued along the tracks near an oncoming train.

An ambitious plan to start train service between New York to Los Angeles via the Lehigh Valley in time for America’s 250th birthday and the 2026 FIFA World Cup has been rejected by Amtrak. Last year, ...

Ellis Smith of the mayor's staff told members of the City Council on Tuesday that, if all the money was in place, a passenger rail system connecting Chattanooga with Atlanta, Nashville and Memphis ...

Ontario’s passenger train service, the Northlander, is making its return with service stops between Toronto’s Union Station and Timmins, with a rail connection to Cochrane. According to Metroland, the ...