BURLINGTON The final leg of a $26.5 million rail improvement plan to restore passenger service between Rutland and Burlington could begin later this summer, but the state of Vermont has ordered the ...

After a nearly 70-year absence, a passenger train running from Vermont's revitalized Burlington train station to New York City headed south Friday as part of a nationwide renewal of interest in rail ...

Half a dozen people took turns on November 4 telling the Burlington City Council that the city is being railroaded — literally. A proposal to service Amtrak trains overnight at the old Union Station ...

The train’s late getting to Burlington — by about 60 years. Railroad riders have been waiting since 1953 for long-distance passenger service to return to Union Station. In the mid-1990s, developers ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The long-awaited return of passenger rail service to Burlington for the first time in nearly 70 years is set for July 29, the Vermont Agency of Transportation announced Thursday ...

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Few rail yards claim to be glamorous, but the one in downtown Burlington basked in favorable reviews Wednesday afternoon. How common is this 9-acre parcel that can shuffle the likes of boulders, road ...

Time and money be damned. The 18 private rail cars that hove into the Burlington rail yard Monday afternoon arrived an hour behind schedule. But, the 100 or so passengers, many of them owners, swore ...