NEWARK, N.J. — Amtrak has unveiled at a plant in California the first of 70 new locomotives, marking what the national passenger railroad service said it 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 ...

An $850 million contract was awarded for 75 locomotives to be delivered through 2024. See more stories on Insider's business page. Amtrak last month unveiled the new upgrades to its Superliner and ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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., ...

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 ...

New electric Amtrak trains will reduce traffic jams and save energy, vice president Biden announced last week at 30th Street Station. The trains will start running in the next few months. New electric ...

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 ...

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, ...