I compared coach and business class seats on a 4-hour Amtrak ride. One perk made the $120 upgrade worth it.

The sandwich options, which included cherrywood smoked ham and fontina on marble rye, peppered turkey, Gouda, and spinach on ...

Amtrak to restore full NYC-to-Albany service, nixing Metro-North plan

Amtrak will restore a full schedule of service between Penn Station and Albany in early March — which also puts the kibosh on an MTA plan to run Metro-North trains from Grand Central to ...

Passengers react to Amtrak train derailing in Northfield, Mass.

Just after two P.M. in Northfield, Massachusetts, a south bound train from Vermont (train 55) crossed the town-line, and hit ...
ABC 7 Chicago

Amtrak passengers stuck on train for nearly 30 hours, some calling 911

DENMARK, S.C. -- Passengers traveling on an Amtrak Auto Train from a Washington, D.C., suburb Monday evening expected to arrive in the Orlando area by Tuesday morning. But their planned 17-hour ...
The Washington Informer

With Union Station as a Growing Hub, a Private Rail Company Pitches Amtrak on a New Generation of Overnight Trains

Discover how AmeriStarRail proposes to transform Amtrak's long-distance travel with their innovative bi-level trainset, ...
Upgraded Points on MSN

I rode Amtrak’s NextGen Acela in business class — here’s my take

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 ...
Trains on MSN

Amtrak's Vermonter derails at low speed

NORTHFIELD, Mass. — No injuries were reported in a slow-speed derailment of Amtrak’s Vermonter this afternoon in Northfield, at a junction of the Berkshire & Eastern and New England Central railroads.
Railway Age

For Amtrak, ‘A Year of Records’

Amtrak closed its Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25, Oct. 1 2024 – Sept. 30, 2025) on Sept. 30 with “record ridership and revenue—marking another year of growth and strong performance, “underscoring the growing ...