While epic road trips are among the best ways to explore the U.S., not everyone is cut out to spend endless hours driving or riding as a passenger. Another way is to take a train, and Amtrak offers ...

Amtrak, a portmanteau of the words "America" and "track," has been serving the American frontier and three Canadian provinces since 1971, making it a dominant passenger rail line, operating intercity ...

Train travel in America has always been something of a dare. The country laid 250,000 miles of track in the 19th century, effectively invented the long-distance passenger train, then spent most of the ...