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Amtrak's New Trains Are Finally Hitting The Rails After Years Of Delay—Here's What We Know

In 2024, Amtrak, the nationalized passenger rail system of the United States of America, served 32.8 million customers. This marks the highest number of customers served in a single year in Amtrak's ...
WLOX

Passenger trains rolling again as Amtrak returns to South Mississippi

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (WLOX) - It’s been nearly 20 years, but passenger rail service is back on the Gulf Coast for the first time since Hurricane Katrina derailed the existing passenger service. “The ...
The Daily Record (Maryland)

Report: Amtrak’s new higher-speed trains delayed by planning, track issues

U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak‘s next-generation high-speed Acela train cars were delayed by more than four years due to planning, design and track issues, and a desire for higher speeds that have not ...
The Spokesman-Review

Amtrak’s Mardi Gras train returns, joyfully, 20 years after Katrina

MOBILE, Ala. — There it was again, after all these years: an Amtrak passenger train, its red and blue cars gleaming in the moonlight as it idled at a platform in Mobile, Alabama. An eager crowd had ...