Source: Amtrak Alstom, the trains' manufacturer, says the issue is with the old train tracks on the route. "The modeling of the wheel to track interface is particularly complex due to age ...

Following the transfer of Amtrak operations from the old station to the new Southern Illinois Multimodal Station, demolition ...

Ninety feet below the East River, Amtrak’s 110-year-old train tunnels are slowly filling with salty water dripping on high-voltage cables as steel is nearly corroded to dust. Above ground ...

But the heart of the operation Amtrak inherited relies on electrical standards that are a century old. Between Washington and New York City, rather than adopting the modern, nearly universal ...