Despite legislative uncertainty and a 7-10 year timeline, advocates believe new Amtrak routes could succeed where previous ...

Over the years, Amtrak's 35-hour Coast Starlight has also gained a reputation as a more scenic and relaxed mode of travel, with sections of the route running alongside the Pacific Ocean.

Amtrak route maps showed them in yellow as “future service” lines for a few years, but none were ever implemented, and now they can’t be. Instead, the statute changed and effectively prohibited such ...

Amtrak told CNN Business that to calculate trip times for most of its proposed new routes it researched passenger train times in the mid-1950s to early 1960s and chose the best trip time. Amtrak ...

Some states, such as Kentucky and Tennessee, were left with minimal or no Amtrak routes almost from the beginning. Over time, Amtrak adjusted its routes based on ridership, funding, and freight ...

New York and 17 other states cover operating costs for 29 Amtrak routes of 750 miles or less. They carried 14.7 million riders last year. New York had 10% of that ridership.

Amtrak facts for 2013. Amtrak serves more than 500 destinations in 46 states and three Canadian provinces on 21,300 miles of routes. Amtrak’s total ridership is 31.6 million passengers.

A map from Amtrak shows where you could see new routes. Amtrak says funding from the president’s $2 trillion proposal could fund new routes in cities across the United States.