The new Mardi Gras Service runs from New Orleans to Mobile, Ala., and lets visitors explore the Gulf Coast’s pleasantly walkable waterfront towns without a car.

Tourism leaders want demographic information to guide future decisions after learning the ridership of the Amtrak Mardi Gras Service is far outpacing initial expectations.

On Wednesday in Irvington, Ala., a community about 20 miles southwest of Mobile, an eastbound Amtrak train heading from New Orleans on the Mardi Gras route collided with a white pickup truck.

Over the course of a luxe and leisurely four-night rail journey, it's clear that the luxury train offers guests a very ...

I had to book Amtrak instead of flying, and it made my holiday travel experience less of a hassle. A generous luggage policy and my worry about airport disruptions made train travel more appealing.

Amtrak’s Mardi Gras Service is surging far beyond expectations, with more than 46,000 riders since its Aug. 18 launch and ...

Passenger rail service will return to Lodi on Dec. 8, according to Councilwoman Lisa Craig-Hensley, who represents Lodi on ...

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Stephen Mattingly, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, explains in this interview why high-speed rail projects in much of the country so often go off track.

The Amtrak Board of Directors held its year-end 2025 meeting earlier this month in New Orleans, the site of a celebration ...

After procrastinating to buy my flight home for Thanksgiving one too many times (sorry, Mom), I've been left with no other option but to turn to the Pennsylvanian, a 9-hour and 20-minute Amtrak train ...