Taking the train as an alternative to a cancelled flight is only rarely mentioned in news reports on the flight reductions ...

Ever since the start of a second daily Amtrak train from Union Depot, St. Paul, to Union Station, Chicago, with the Borealis, I have been itching to take the train to visit my three cousins who ...

ST. PAUL - Trains are back on track at St. Paul's Union Depot, albeit more than a year behind their original schedule. Beginning May 7, Amtrak's Empire Builder will arrive and depart from the ...

Amtrak ’s Empire Builder will resume regular passenger rail service routes and schedules between Chicago and Seattle, including North Dakota, in early January. As part of the service resumption, set ...

The Amtrak Empire Builder may not be the most fashionable train in the world, or the fastest, or the most elegant. But it has something that other trains do not have — the wide Montana scenery that ...

Amtrak has announced its new Winter Wanderlust Sale, which offers travellers up to 30% off regularly priced fares on a number of routes.

Amtrak’s Empire Builder route was expected to re-open in Montana on Friday, Feb. 10, after storms closed the line in the Marias Pass area. A westbound train departing Chicago on Friday was expected to ...

Amtrak is preemptively canceling the Empire Builder service that runs through Montana starting Tuesday because of concerns over a possible strike by freight rail workers. While those negotiations ...

Early the week of Jan. 13, Amtrak issued a cancellation alert for its Empire Builder: “Trains 7 and 8 will be canceled between Spokane and Chicago due to inclement weather throughout the area on ...

Amtrak now is making it easier to buy tickets for the two routes that serve Edmonds and Everett. The national passenger train service has started its eTicket service beginning on Monday. It had been ...