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New high-speed trains are about to be available for travelers along the Northeast Corridor.Amtrak will launch five NextGen ...
The railroad once represented the American dream of expansion—and exploitation. But is train travel becoming a thing of the past?
MacArthur Airport growth and a proposed Amtrak link aim to boost Suffolk County’s economy and make Ronkonkoma a key regional transportation hub.
Construction activity surged in June with total starts reaching $1.33 trillion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, driven ...
Delaware-based group AmeriStarRail is proposing a new Amtrak train route that can transport people between U.S. coasts in 72 hours.
Delaware-based group AmeriStarRail is proposing a new Amtrak train route that can transport people between Los Angeles and ...
An on-line-only public Amtrak board of directors meeting today (July 31, 2025) lasted only 45 minutes and concluded with a ...
A woman was rescued from a tunnel near the Jordan River in Salt Lake after becoming lost in the dark and knee-deep water.The woman called 911 emergency dispatch ...
Five projects are now underway, in North Bergen, at the Hoboken-Weehawken border, on the western edge of Manhattan and in the middle of the Hudson.
NEW YORK (PIX11) — The first commuter rail service through the new Hudson River tunnel is planned to run about a decade from now. But crews are busy building structures and clearing the way f… ...
Amtrak’s long-term closure of one of the tunnel tubes (Amtrak calls them “lines”) under the East River between Penn Station and Queens remains controversial. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, other elected ...
The Gateway Development Commission plans to spend $16 billion to build a new set of train tunnels beneath the Hudson River, and eventually close and repair Amtrak’s existing 115-year-old set of ...