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After decades of penny-pinching, the first half of the 2020s appeared to be the beginning of a golden age for passenger rail investment in the United States. Since 2021, Amtrak has received ...

Ridership on the Amtrak Hiawatha line between Milwaukee and Chicago rose 4.5% in Amtrak’s 2024 fiscal year to 665,279, according to the federal passenger railroad operation’s annual report. However, ...

RIGHT NOW, DETERIORATING TRAIN CARS PUT THE BRAKES ON SOME AMTRAK ROUTES. THE TWO MAIN LINES AFFECTED ARE THE HIAWATHA BETWEEN MILWAUKEE AND CHICAGO, AND THE BOREALIS ROUTE BETWEEN CHICAGO AND SAINT ...

Passenger train ridership is on the rise in Minnesota and North Dakota. According to a Grand Forks Herald report in March, use in North Dakota has risen steadily since the COVID-19 pandemic, with a ...

The question: Should Amtrak's corroded railcars been replaced more than a decade ago in Wisconsin? Earlier this spring, widespread cancellations on Amtrak routes between Chicago and Milwaukee hit ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Last year, nearly 98,500 people in Montana boarded or departed the Empire Builder, the train that ...

Amtrak’s daily Borealis service between St. Paul and Chicago was disrupted Wednesday, with buses replacing trains. The cause of the train cancellation was corrosion of passenger railcars used on the ...