When Amtrak unveils the first of 70 new locomotives Monday at a plant in California, it will mark what the national passenger railroad service hopes will be a new era of better reliability, ...

Three years ago, Amtrak announced it had ordered 70 new locomotives that would serve the Northeast Corridor. Now, they're finally starting to arrive. Earlier this spring, two of the locomotives ...

Amtrak is using the Empire Builder route that rolls through Montana to debut new locomotives that it says are cleaner, faster and more fuel-efficient than their predecessors. Engines 301 and 302, ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Amtrak this week unveiled new locomotives for much of its ...

Employees at Cummins Seymour Engine Plant will soon find themselves busier on the heels of the company’s announcement of a deal to make 75 locomotive engines for Siemens Mobility’s Charger locomotives ...

Vice President Joe Biden came to Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station Thursday — not to catch a train, but to unveil Amtrak’s new electric locomotives. Known for his train travel between his Delaware ...

Chicago’s commuter rail agency is bargain-hunting as it looks to buy used locomotives to help bolster its motive power fleet. On Feb. 21 Metra directors authorized negotiations to purchase as many as ...

Amtrak, the U.S. long-distance passenger railroad, is receiving the first of 70 electric locomotives made by Siemens AG intended to replace equipment that’s as old as 35 years. The first three ...

Amtrak is retiring the AEM-7 electric locomotives that have carried passengers along the Northeast Corridor for 37 years. The trains have traveled more than 220 million miles between Washington, D.C., ...

New electric Amtrak trains will reduce traffic jams and save energy, railroad enthusiast Vice President Joe Biden announced last week at 30th Street Station. The trains will start running in the next ...

WASHINGTON – The first train pulled by Amtrak’s cleaner and more fuel-efficient locomotives pulled out of Chicago’s Union Station on Tuesday en route to Spokane, where it was scheduled to arrive early ...