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Two major railroad workers unions have asked the Department of Homeland Security to beef up security on Amtrak and other passenger lines, including by creating a no-ride list akin to the no-fly list that prevents people identified as risks from boarding planes

President-elect Joe Biden will no longer be taking an Amtrak train to Washington for his inauguration because of security concerns

Saltwater deposits left behind by Superstorm Sandy combine with water seeping in from outside to eat away at the tunnel’s walls, including sections that house 12,000-volt electrical cables running the length of the 2 ½-mile span, while also degrading the track bed, wood ties and rails

Amtrak canceled all service between New York City and New Haven, Connecticut, Tuesday evening after an earlier freight train derailment, the railroad service announced

The new bridge will replace a 110-year-old swing bridge that occasionally becomes stuck after it opens to allow boats to pass under, causing delays along the corridor between Boston and Washington, D.C.

Amtrak began requiring customers to cover their faces in stations, on trains and thruway buses Monday.

Amtrak will resume Acela train service on June 1 for those traveling between Washington D.C., Philadelphia, New York, New Haven, Boston and other cities. Acela express trains, which travel at speeds up to 150 mph, were shuttered back in March due to the coronavirus pandemic and customers were told to use Northeast Regional service instead. Amtrak has seen overall ridership…

Starting Sunday May 3 at midnight, the concourses for Amtrak and NJ Transit will all be closed overnight so the transit hub and trains can be thoroughly cleaned, Amtrak said in an announcement Friday evening

AMtrak made the decision to close part of the transit ub for deep cleaning, which will go along with the MTA closing subway stations roughly during the same hours. But opening up to pedestrians and bicyclists will be seven miles of NYC streets starting Saturday. NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

The new plan calls for more extensive repairs that will require further service disruptions — including a potential “complete outage at some point,” according to an Amtrak executive

A cement truck derailment is fouling traffic Friday. Ken Buffa reports.

The bridge, like the current Hudson River tunnel seeking repairs, is more than 100 years old and prone to malfunction, leading to rampant commuter delays

A more than 100-year-old bridge over the Hackensack River that gives commuters headaches on a regular basis may finally be getting replaced, as feds show signs they may be willing to build a new one. NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.

A man was stabbed at Penn Station on Monday afternoon, according to the NYPD. It’s not clear what sparked the stabbing near the entrance at West 33rd Street and Eighth Avenue around 6:38 p.m. That’s near the station’s entrance to the Amtrak concourse. The victim was taken to the hospital but should survive. The attacker hasn’t been arrested. Anyone...

Involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges have once again been dropped against the Amtrak engineer at the controls during a deadly 2015 derailment in Philadelphia.

Work begins on new railyard to store New Jersey Transit and Amtrak trains during storms.

All New Jersey Transit’s Morris & Essex Midtown Direct trains to Penn Station will be diverted to Hoboken during the weekslong overhaul at Penn Station this summer, Gov. Chris Christie announced Tuesday.

A veteran pizza delivery man in Delaware got an order from an unusual address: an Amtrak train that got stalled on the tracks for hours on its way from New York to Washington.

Amtrak said Monday that it was a NJ Transit mechanical problem that caused a NJ Transit train to get stuck in a Hudson River tunnel for hours Friday evening, not Amtrak’s infrastructure, as Gov. Chris Christie had said earlier in the day.