MARTA’s new train cars passed a critical round of testing this week, hitting top speeds while operating on their own power and bringing the agency ever closer to putting the long-awaited cars into ...

In the late 1990s, a group of commuters would board the early-morning Amtrak train from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. They’d sit in the first car behind the locomotive, enjoying communal, ...

Amtrak rule changes tend to be hit or miss among passengers. Its latest rule change created more frustration than enthusiasm. Amtrak changed its lounge rules, advising passengers that they cannot ...

Some things end not with a bang but with a whimper, as TS Eliot once wrote. And so it sadly goes with the Metro-North Quiet Car program, a popular feature that began in 2011 and was suspended during ...