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Amtrak plans to spend $7.3 billion to replace 83 passenger trains, some nearly a half-century old, though much of the funding must still be approved by Congress.

Amtrak’s new fleet of trains will service the Northeast Corridor and feature upgrades such as hybrid batteries.

Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner will offer expanded service for trains between San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, rail officials announced Wednesday.

Seven train passengers were transported to the hospital. The vehicle was unoccupied and stationary on the train tracks.

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President Joe Biden didn’t want to be anywhere else Friday than helping his Amtrak family celebrate 50 years on the rails

Proposed federal infrastructure funding for rail projects has transportation planners taking another look at a Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas passenger route that Amtrak stopped in 1997 and at a high-speed rail line along the congested Interstate 15 corridor to Victorville.

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President Joe Biden says his proposal for an aggressive series of infrastructure investments would require $2.3 trillion in spending over eight years but could create millions of jobs.

Two major railroad workers unions have asked the Department of Homeland Security to beef up security on Amtrak and other passenger lines, including by creating a no-ride list akin to the no-fly list that prevents people identified as risks from boarding planes

President-elect Joe Biden will no longer be taking an Amtrak train to Washington for his inauguration because of security concerns

Amtrak announced Thursday that people intending to travel on the Pacific Surfliner route from San Diego to San Luis Obispo around the Christmas holiday must make reservations.

Reservations will be required on Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner route during the Thanksgiving holiday period to safely manage an expected increase in travelers, the company announced Thursday.

Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner train service to Santa Barbara County and San Luis Obispo is partially up and running Monday, for the first time since being derailed by the Coronavirus. The changes are the first step to bringing back full service along 100 miles of the 351-mile Los Angeles-San Diego-San Luis Obispo coastal rail corridor, known as LOSSAN. Some train and…

Amtrak began requiring customers to cover their faces in stations, on trains and thruway buses Monday.

More Southland transit services are requiring people wear masks or face coverings while using their systems, as Amtrak announced Thursday it will mandate its customers to put on the COVID-19 protections starting Monday. Amtrak stated services will be denied to customers not wearing facial coverings. “To protect customers and employees, all customers in stations and on trains and thruway buses…