Of the 253 people on board Amtrak Train 188, eight passengers were killed, and 185 others were transported to area hospitals after the May 12, 2015, derailment.

Elon Musk's tunneling firm, the Boring Company, had recent talks to assess if it could help with an Amtrak project in the Northeastern U.S., the New York Times reports .

Seattle is a step closer to getting new, faster Amtrak trains. Driving the news: Construction has begun at Amtrak's Seattle maintenance facility to help launch the company's new Airo trains, which can travel 125 miles per hour.

The New York Times reports that Musk’s company is helping the government assess “the costs and progress” of the Frederick Douglass Tunnel program, a new underground Amtrak route that has been designed to replace an aging tunnel system that connects Baltimore to Washington and Virginia.

Amtrak paid more than $12 million in fraudulent medical claims for its employees as part of a scheme involving crooked doctors, officials said.

Federal railroad regulators are in talks with Elon Musk’s tunneling firm, The Boring Company (TBC), over a multibillion-dollar Amtrak project, according

The Federal Railroad Administration has brought in the tunneling company to see if it could help with a multibillion-dollar rail project.

The train company’s watchdog began investigating the jaw-dropping scheme after an agent noticed unusual billing patterns, according to the OIG’s office.

At least 119 current and former Amtrak employees conspired with New York medical professionals to swindle the company's health care plan out of over $12 million, the Amtrak Office of the Inspector General said in a report released Tuesday of what it described as the largest employee conspiracy it has ever investigated.

Prospective Amtrak board of directors nominee Robert Gleason made clear in his opening statement at a U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hearing today (May 13, 2025) that he is committed “to bringing better passenger rail service to small towns across America.

A truck left the scene after clipping an Amtrak train while trying to beat it at a railroad crossing late Wednesday morning, according to the Greensboro Police Department. Officers say the crash happened at around 11:45 a.