Narrowly defeated last year, rail advocates have returned with refreshed legislation aimed at restoring passenger service from Portland to Bangor.

Rotundo, D-Lewiston, and cosponsored by Baldacci, LD 472 would direct the Maine-Canadian Legislative Advisory Commission and the New England and Eastern Canada Legislative Commission to examine ...

The administration has indicated that it might use birth rates and immigration policy in prioritizing federal funding.

The region hasn’t had a train to Boston since the 1950s, when highways became king. Now, after more than three decades of ...

WELLS, Maine — The expansion of the Amtrak Downeaster ... according to the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority. Once complete, Amtrak Downeaster trains arriving at the station from ...

so freight and passenger trains can go faster, including five round trips daily by the Amtrak Downeaster traveling between Boston and Brunswick. Rather than drive around the gates, railroad and ...

The MBTA has received final approval from the Federal Railroad Administration to begin South Coast Rail passenger service on ...

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Insurgents who attacked a passenger train carrying 440 passengers in restive southwestern Pakistan killed 21 hostages before security forces killed all 33 of the ...

“This really is the absolute last chance for the state to get passenger rail to northern Maine.” His bill ... to work with Canadian officials to see if a line could link Boston to Montreal. Rotundo ...

Eurostar, which runs passenger trains through the Channel Tunnel between Britain and the continent, said its “sincerely apologizes for the disruption and understands the inconvenience this may ...