Our travel columnist took the California Zephyr during the Thanksgiving rush. And would do it again, with ear plugs.

The California Zephyr, the Empire Builder and the Sunset Limited offer multi-night rail journeys and extraordinary views of America that only a long-distance train trip can reveal.

Q: We recently traveled on Amtrak's California Zephyr from Chicago to Sacramento. It was not a good experience. When we entered the sleeper bedroom, it was readily apparent that the visual depiction ...

OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) -- Amtrak was calling out the buses Wednesday after a derailed freight train here blocked the tracks that serve the California Zephyr in a tangle of rail cars and dumped coal. No ...

It appears the demand for train travel is continuing to rise, with Amtrak, the nation’s passenger rail service, reporting ...

Amtrak provided 34.5 million customer trips, a figure that’s an all-time record for both ridership and revenue for the second ...

A record-breaking 34.5 million people have traveled on an Amtrak train in Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25), which is over 5 percent ...