WASHINGTON–Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy celebrated Amtrak’s launch of new high-speed Acela train sets by taking the inaugural ride from Washington, DC, to New York City.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is set to announce that the Department of Transportation (DOT) will be “reclaiming” management of Union Station in Washington, DC, Breitbart News has learned.
A California surf instructor lost her arm about she was hit by an Amtrak train while pushing her e-bike across the tracks.
A heart-pounding incident happened on Wednesday in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a Good Samaritan was there to help a person who might have been severely hurt.
A man is accused of taking the leg of a pedestrian who was hit by a train in Wasco, California, and eating the severed limb on Friday morning.
A Florida man traveling in Chicago was arrested after Amtrak authorities found $1.2 million worth of methamphetamine in his luggage, police said.
President Joe Biden pledged $16 billion in federal money to improve Amtrak in the nation’s Northeast Corridor.
President Joe Biden on Monday delivered remarks in Baltimore, Maryland, where he touted a tunnel project being addressed with funds from the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act he signed in 2021. At the same time, he continues to refuse spending cut negotiations with Republican lawmakers over the $31.3 trillion debt ceiling breached on January 19, even though he has admitted Washington politicians need to rein in the national debt.
President Joe Biden expressed frustration about the state of American airports on Monday, even though he made funding for trains a greater priority in his infrastructure bill.
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may use the taxpayer-funded Amtrak train service to transport border crossers and illegal aliens into the United States, House Republicans say.
Two Boy Scout troops from Wisconsin rendered aid Monday when an Amtrak train derailed in Missouri, and have received much attention for their efforts.
The president spoke about public transit during his speech on high gas prices on Wednesday, promoting them as a potential solution.
Uber is the first ride-sharing service to announce it is lifting its coronavirus mask mandate for drivers and passengers after a federal judge in Florida struck down the order the Joe Biden administration put it into affect in the first days of his presidency, as Breitbart News reported.
Amtrak on Tuesday announced that the passenger railroad company with temporarily halt a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees after it warned of possible service reductions.
Amtrak on Thursday revealed plans to reduce services in 2022 over its employees’ defiance of President Biden’s vaccine mandate.
Amtrak expects to temporarily cut some service next month as it warns of possible labor shortages due to the Biden administration’s coronavirus vaccine mandate which requires employees of government contractors to be fully jabbed by January 4th.
On Monday, and for the fifth time in about a year, His Fraudulency Joe Biden told a fake story riddled with lies about his experience with an Amtrak train conductor.
If more people took trains, Joe Biden argued, it would save millions of barrels of oil and would reduce pollution.
JOPLIN, Mont. — At least three people were killed Saturday afternoon when an Amtrak train that runs between Seattle and Chicago derailed in north-central Montana, toppling several cars onto their sides, authorities said.
Terry McAuliffe, the Virginia Democrat vying to be governor for a second time, was spotted on Amtrak without a mask, apparently ignoring federal law requiring customers and employees to wear a mask “while onboard trains and in stations.”
The bill would leave the rail company more reliant on taxpayer subsidies and more vulnerable to future downturns.
The president spoke at the 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, recalling his long history of traveling to Delaware on the train from Washington, DC, when he was a senator.
Former Vice President Joe Biden promised a “second great railroad revolution” as part of his climate change pitch on Tuesday in Wilmington, Delaware.
An Amtrak passenger train crashed into an 18-wheeler sitting at a railroad crossing in Cibolo, Texas, on Tuesday morning.
Revelations in the new book “Profiles in Corruption” show that Democrats lack credibility in accusing President Donald Trump of “abuse of power,” the book’s author Peter Schweizer said in an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — An Amtrak train traveling from Seattle to Los Angeles with 183 passengers got stranded in the snowy mountains of Oregon for at least 36 hours, putting a strain on passengers as food, patience and even diapers ran short.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Workers are trying to free an Amtrak train with 183 passengers aboard that has been stuck since Sunday after hitting a tree that fell on the tracks near Eugene, Oregon.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A deadly arctic deep freeze enveloped the Midwest with record-breaking temperatures Wednesday, triggering widespread closures of schools and businesses, and prompting the U.S. Postal Service to take the rare step of suspending mail delivery to a wide swath of the region.
California’s terrible commuter rail service speeds and on-time performance are growing worse, due to homeless camps near the tracks and transients wandering on the rails.
CAYCE, S.C. — A crash between an Amtrak passenger train and a CSX freight train in South Carolina on Sunday killed two people and injured about 70 others, authorities said.
Stephen King has apologized for claiming this week’s fatal train crash, which carried Republican congressmen, was ‘karma.’
An Amtrak train carrying members of Congress and staff to a retreat in West Virginia hit a truck near Charlottesville, Virginia on Wednesday.
Authorities are reporting multiple fatalities after an Amtrak train carrying 78 passengers and five crew members derailed off a bridge onto Interstate 5 Monday morning.
During a speech in Washington, DC on Monday, President Trump commented on the fatal Amtrak derailment in Washington state by expressing his sympathies and prayers for the victims and arguing the derailment shows work must “immediately” begin to fix infrastructure
Follow Breitbart News for updates on the derailment of Amtrak Cascades Train 501 near Dupont, WA, with multiple fatalities reported.
NEW YORK CITY — Commuters in the Big Apple are having another rotten week after a track fire shut down four subway lines, pictures of which were plastered all over the front pages of the city’s newspapers Tuesday — putting more pressure on Democratic politicians in charge of making the trains run.
The Trump administration plans to dump about half of Amtrak’s $1.4 billion annual taxpayer subsidy by ending long-haul passenger services that cost taxpayers about $298 per round-trip and whose on-time performance is as low as 6 percent.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo requested “emergency assistance” from President Trump to fix Penn Station’s aging infrastructure, according to a letter he wrote to Trump Sunday.
The influential American Conservative Union called out the House of Representatives for asking members to vote on a 1,600 page appropriations bill, H.R. 244, only two days after introducing it.
California officials now plan to outsource the production of high-tech trains for their hugely expensive fast-rail network, and have quietly dumped their commitment to buy American-made trains.
