The Salt Lake County Council has thrown its support behind an ambitious proposal to revamp downtown rail service and restore the historic Rio Grande Depot

The Justice Department took the unusual step of filing a lawsuit because it said Norfolk Southern is consistently violating the federal law for Amtrak priority.

A man has been arrested after being suspected of taking the leg of a pedestrian who was struck by an Amtrak train in California and eating it.

Sixteen railroad freight cars carrying corn derailed early Wednesday under a key railroad overpass in the northeast Nevada city of Elko, but no injuries were re

An Amtrak train crashed into a truck carrying milk at a northeastern Colorado rail crossing, badly injuring the engineer and sending three passengers to a hospi

An Amtrak worker was seriously hurt and two other people suffered minor injuries when a passenger train derailed after it hit a tanker truck, authorities said.

An Amtrak expansion in Ohio could make it easier for passengers to move about the northeast and midwest.

A woman drove around a railroad crossing's arms Tuesday in North Carolina, killing her and a passenger in the car, police said.