Amtrak's Washington to Boston routes are increasingly popular, but need maintenance. Some want Amtrak to spend more on heavily traveled routes, and less to subsidize service in rural parts of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Amtrak says it must spend tens of millions of dollars to replace defective railroad ties on the heavily traveled Northeast Corridor. The problem could delay trains -- and thus cost ...

For too long, Amtrak seemed to have a bull's-eye painted on all of its train cars when it came to federal funding. Since the mid-1990s, monetary support for the subsidized passenger rail service had ...