WASHINGTON - Congressional critics say President Bush's six-year plan to force the states to pick up more of Amtrak's costs ignores short-term problems that could shut down the railroad. Bush sent a ...

WASHINGTON — Train cars were engulfed in flames late Monday night when a fire broke out in Amtrak’s maintenance yard. D.C. Fire responded to a box alarm fire at around 11:10 p.m. Monday on the 1400 ...

An 81-year-old man died after a collision with an Amtrak passenger train in Kent. The Tacoma News Tribune reports that the man was identified as Charles Curran by the King County Medical Examiner’s ...

WASHINGTON -- A Bush administration proposal for Amtrak's future could end the government-subsidized railroad's monopoly on intercity passenger rail travel, a congressional supporter says. Officially, ...

Amtrak President David Gunn said yesterday that he will begin shutting down rail passenger service nationwide "in the middle of next week" and put Amtrak into bankruptcy unless the Bush administration ...