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For long, Europe knew about luxury train travel on the Orient Express. The opulence of Orient Express has been recreated in the USA with the GrandLuxe Rail Journeys. Six 1950s railway cars are attached to Amtrak’s California Zephyr that passes...
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AP, Port Kent
State police say a New Jersey dentist was struck and killed by an Amtrak train as he fished from a trestle in northern New York.
made popular Apr 30 2009
AP, Halethorpe
Amtrak has resumed limited train service between Baltimore and Washington after a major water main break but warns that major delays are still expected south of...
made popular Apr 29 2009
AP, Halethorpe
Amtrak has halted all train service between Baltimore and Washington because of a major water main break in Maryland.
made popular Apr 29 2009
AP, Washington
Vice President Joe Biden, once a regular rail commuter, says the $1.3 billion for Amtrak in the economic stimulus package will go toward long-overdue projects.
made popular Mar 13 2009
AP, Lorton
Police say a man has been hit and killed by an Amtrak train outside Washington, D.C., after the engineer tried to stop but couldn’t.
made popular Feb 24 2009
AP, Hammond
Two cars on an Amtrak train headed to Chicago have derailed in northwestern Indiana. No passengers or crew were in the last two cars, so no one was hurt.
made popular Feb 24 2009
AP, Northfield
A 36-year-old woman said she’s feeling stiff and still a bit in shock, but was otherwise OK after her snowmobile collided with an Amtrak train. Authorities said...
made popular Feb 9 2009
AP, Washington
Joe Biden took the train back and forth each day between Delaware and Washington during his decades in the Senate. So where did the famous Amtrak commuter spend his...
made popular Jan 25 2009
AP, Chicago
Hundreds of train passengers have been delayed after an Amtrak train leaving Chicago’s Union Station partially derailed.
made popular Jan 15 2009
AP, Brighton
Amtrak says 10 people were injured when a train slammed into a tractor-trailer that blocked tracks in southern Illinois.
made popular Dec 9 2008
AP, Brighton
Authorities say 10 people are injured after an Amtrak train hit a tractor-trailer in southern Illinois and derailed.
made popular Dec 8 2008
AP, Brighton
Amtrak says at least nine people have been injured after one of its trains slammed into a tractor-trailer on the tracks in southern Illinois.
made popular Dec 8 2008
AP, Washington
Amtrak’s CEO, Alex Kummant, resigned Friday after two years on the job and following unspecified differences with the board of the national passenger railroad.
made popular Nov 15 2008
AP, Washington
Amtrak’s CEO, Alex Kummant, resigned Friday after two years on the job because of unspecified differences with the board of the national passenger railroad.
made popular Nov 15 2008
AP, Washington
Amtrak Chief Executive Alex Kummant resigned Friday after two years marked by significant growth in ridership and revenue, the national passenger railroad said.
made popular Nov 14 2008
AP, Washington
Until Hurricane Katrina ripped up the railroad tracks east of the Mississippi, Amtrak’s Sunset Limited ran from Los Angeles to Sanford, Fla. The tracks were...
made popular Nov 8 2008
AP, Washington
For all the thorny free-market issues raised, the big U.S. intervention in banks does have precedents _ from wholesale wartime takeovers of entire industries to the...
made popular Oct 14 2008
AP, Washington
Amtrak carried a record 28.7 million people last year, with each of its routes seeing gains, the national passenger railroad said Friday.
made popular Oct 10 2008
AP, Washington
A sweeping rail safety reform bill that also includes billions for Amtrak has cleared a key vote in the Senate.
made popular Sep 29 2008
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Luxury travel is probably not the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of Amtrak. But soon the passengers will get the luxury service while they board the...
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