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This epic three-day train service could be changing the landscape of cross-country travel in the U.S., with a direct rail ...
Step on board a newly upgraded Amtrak Superliner sleeper car on the California Zephyr and see inside a roomette I booked for a 15-hour journey.
A privately funded train route between Los Angeles and New York City, in less than 72 hours, could begin as early as next year ...
Superliner train consists have shrunk lately, especially since Amtrak cut service from daily to tri-weekly on all those trains (except the Sunset Limited, which has run on a tri-weekly schedule since ...
Delaware-based group AmeriStarRail is proposing a new Amtrak train route that can transport people between Los Angeles and ...
Amtrak's bilevel train car Superliner, which debuted in Chicago in early 1979, was named for the television series, "Supertrain." (Chicago Tribune) ...
Earlier, on the upper level of a two-story Superliner rail car that Amtrak uses for 11 of its 15 long-distance routes, I had spoken with James Buhle, another lead service attendant, as the train ...
RailInc’s UMLER reports that of 428 bi-level Superliners reported as active in 2018, only 367 have current airbrake tests, suggesting that the balance are out of service. An internal Amtrak planning ...
Step on board a newly upgraded Amtrak Superliner sleeper car on the California Zephyr and see inside a roomette I booked for a 15-hour journey.
The Superliner began its first long-distance travel between Chicago and Seattle in October 1979. Want more vintage Chicago?