OAKLAND, Calif. - Amtrak's daily "California Zephyr" train between Emeryville and Chicago is temporarily suspended west of Denver, the result of one Amtrak employee testing positive for the COVID-19 ...

While thousands of air travelers were stranded or severely delayed by canceled flights as a wind-swept snowstorm blanketed the Midwest and Great Lakes region, Amtrak’s sold-out trains suffered only a ...

CHICAGO — More evidence of the toll Amtrak’s aging locomotive and passenger car fleet is taking on operations was provided in ...

UPDATE: The Zephyr began running through Glenwood Canyon again on Aug. 6. DENVER (CBS4) - Massive mudslides last week in Glenwood Canyon have temporarily halted train service on Amtrak's California ...

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Amtrak’s California Zephyr runs a daily 2,438-mile trip to Emeryville/San Francisco from Chicago, roughly a 52-hour journey. President Trump has proposed a national budget that would terminate federal ...

Soon after we rumbled over the Mississippi on an old iron bridge, I sat down to dinner with an Amish couple from West Virginia. They were dead-ringers for Mr and Mrs Abraham Lincoln - he tall and ...

Amtrak said it plans this week to resume full service of its California Zephyr train between Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Areawith a stop in Denver. Major portions of the route between Denver and ...

Start with this simple truth: Crossing the country by train is an adventure. Whether you’re out to see the country in a relaxed manner or avoid the hassles of flying or driving, a train journey will ...

ABOARD THE CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR — It creeps through the twilight into Ottumwa, Iowa, a silver ghost from the past. In 1923, 57 passenger trains a day called here. Today there is only the California ...