Amtrak launches passenger route; Maine to Boston: It took 13 years and $50 million to implement serviceASSOCIATED PRESS
“Amtrak Cascades is eager to welcome new trains to our scenic 18-city route linking Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. Our eight new trainsets and two new locomotives are scheduled for delivery in 2026. Featuring an evergreen and mocha color scheme representative of the Pacific Northwest,...
Spend your Holiday in Maine It’s almost time to travel to Maine and spend the holidays with your family and friends. Long weekends enjoying family… Read more » All things Autumn The colors are changing and Pumpkin Spice Latte’s have entered the chat. Getting cozy and enjoying local fal...
“I have long advocated for better intercity passenger rail in the Midwest through my work in the House Transportation and Infrastructure Rail Subcommittee. Today’s announcement is a monumental step forward to make Indianapolis better-connected than ever before. Daily service for t...
I have traveled almost every Amtrak route in the nation since 1995, including a few routes that no longer exist. These rail journeys covered over 140,000 miles of travel. My travelogues and photos of those train journeys are posted here.
This is the Southern cross-country route, a whole different flavour from the routes via Chicago. Coast to coast via New Orleans takes 4 nights, making it slower than the more usual transcontinental route via Chicago, as you need to spend a night in New Orleans - but a stopover down south...
That isn’t the only route that Amtrak is hoping will increase. The company has a plan to double ridership by 2040, to 66 million passengers. Along with Amtrak, intercity rail is seeing a revival thanks to companies like Brightline, which has built a private passenger rail routein Florida...
For the past several weeks, the Amtrak Coast Starlight has been running far behind schedule over much of its route, especially northbound trains north of Klamath Falls and southbound trains south of Chemult. The Union Pacific has seen a dramatic increase in their freight business and that is ...
The Amtrak Downeaster is a popular regionalAmtrak trainserving passengers in New England. With terminal stations in Boston, Massachusetts and Brunswick, Maine, the Downeaster train route encompasses 145 miles along the northeastern seaboard. The train also passes through multiple cities in New Hampshire...
Directions are actually quite detailed, as Apple Maps will tell you what time you need to leave your current location, what Amtrak route you’ll need to take, where to transfer, and all those other little details that make planning a trip so stressful. But now that it’s all spelled out...