In August 2025, my wife and I planned a trip to the Pacific Northwest to visit family and friends. While we frequently travel by air and rental car, and have taken shorter train trips in the U.S. and ...

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An anonymous listener recently slipped a note through the Bubbler Talk ticket window, asking if it’s true that Amtrak will finally offer a second daily roundtrip passenger train between Milwaukee and ...

ST. PAUL -- A planned second Amtrak train from St. Paul to Chicago is much closer to reality now that $10 million was set aside for it in the state’s omnibus transportation funding package signed into ...

ABOARD THE EMPIRE BUILDER (Reuters) - Its passengers are mostly silver-haired retirees, oil-field workers and a few young families gazing out the windows of Amtrak's least-profitable and third-longest ...

The Amtrak passenger train that derailed in central Montana last month was operating at a safe speed and its emergency braking system was in good working order. That's according the preliminary crash ...

Severe winter conditions were blamed for Amtrak suspending a number of its long-distance and regional trains across the nation’s Northern Tier and Midwest during the Christmas holiday week. Then came ...

President Trump delivers remarks at the National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner in Washington, DC. by Ray Marcham If you're wondering why Amtrak's Empire Builder wasn't running on Saturday, ...