Washington House passed HB 1837 aiming to enhance Amtrak Cascades service with boosted efficiency and reduced emissions.

State lawmakers are also considering setting performance targets for the route, including 2 1/2-hour travel times between Portland and Seattle.

Amtrak, after investing more than $4 billion in a year to improve its creaky infrastructure and aging fleet, said it expected to make a profit for the first time under President Trump. By Tim Balk ...

An Amtrak Cascades train en route from Eugene to Seattle on Sunday struck and killed a woman who was walking either on or near the tracks north of Oregon City, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s ...

Though they share a maintenance yard in Seattle, the regional Amtrak Cascades trains funded by Washington and Oregon aren’t affected by Sounder’s inspection glitch, said Janet Matkin ...

An Amtrak train carrying 164 passengers from New Orleans collided with a vehicle Thursday afternoon in Alabama. The train was headed to New York City when it hit a vehicle obstructing the tracks ...

Elon Musk wants to privatize the United States’ Postal Service and Amtrak, he said on Wednesday. It’s “kind of embarrassing” how other countries have “way better passenger rail than we ...

During these disruptions, Sound Transit said Sounder passengers can use their ORCA cards to ride Amtrak Cascades to the joint stops it shares with Sounder (Everett, Edmonds, King Street ...

Almost a quarter of Sounder commuter line trips are canceled indefinitely after a routine audit Thursday revealed some of the trains were missing federally required inspections, including to their ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A resolution in the South Dakota House supports the expansion of Amtrak service to South Dakota. House Resolution 6008 is “Supporting the effort to bring Amtrak ...

The Carolinian, en route from New York City to Charlotte, was stopped on the tracks south of Selma while firefighters isolated and put out the fire in the Cafe' car. An Amtrak train passing ...