Biden Announces New Investments in Passenger Rail Projects - The New York Times

The Biden administration said the 25 projects would create more than 100,000 union jobs...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/us/politics/biden-rail-amtrak-polls.html

Biden infrastructure plan: Amtrak vows new routes. Here's where

...Amtrak late Wednesday released a proposed map of new and expanded service if it can land the $80 billion President Joe Biden proposed for the rail service as part of his American Jobs Plan, a massive $2 trillion plan to rebuild the nation's aging infrastructure...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2021/04/01/biden-infrastructure-plan-amtrak-vows-new-routes-american-jobs-plan/4834427001/

American, United airlines cancel thousands of layoffs because of American Rescue stimulus package - The Washington Post

Airlines, Amtrak, New York's MTA cancel or delay thousands of layoffs after passage...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/03/11/american-united-biden-stimulus-jobs/

Amtrak Empire Builder - 30+ Hours in a Superliner Bedroom

The Amtrak Empire Builder train crosses some of the most dramatic land in the United States, passing through Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington State. The entire Amtrak Empire Builder route takes 46 hours at average speed of 50 miles per hour, but our plan was to leave Chicago at 2:15 on Thursday afternoon, spend 30 hours in a luxurious bedroom, and arrive just as the sun sets over Glacier National Park at 8:30 on Friday evening.....
https://youtu.be/iYhuB2uzN9k

House Republicans ask Amtrak CEO for information on Biden's train trips | TheHill

Republicans on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee sent a letter to Amtrak CEO William Flynn seeking information on former Vice President Joe Biden’s trips on the train service. In the Tuesday letter led by Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.), the congressmen asked whether Biden drained taxpayer resources when he used the taxpayer-funded service to campaign, including featuring Amtrak trains in a campaign ad and chartering a train for his Build Back Better Express Tour through Pennsylvania and Ohio after the first presidential debate.....
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/522122-house-republicans-ask-amtrak-ceo-for-information-on-bidens-train-trips

Amtrak is ending daily service to hundreds of stations. Blame the coronavirus pandemic, the railroad says - The Washington Post

The reduced schedules begin Oct. 1, affecting stations across the country.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2020/06/16/amtrak-is-ending-daily-service-hundreds-stations-blame-coronavirus-pandemic-railroad-says/

There is no reason to cross the country by train, but I did it anyway.

TELL YOUR FELLOW AMERICANS that you plan to cross the United States by train, and their reactions will range from amusement at your spellbinding eccentricity to naked horror that they, through some fatal social miscalculation, have become acquainted with a person who would plan to cross the United States by train. Depending how you slice it — time or money — there are either 61 or 960 immediate reasons not to travel by Amtrak trains from New York City to Los Angeles.....
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/20/magazine/train-across-america-amtrak.html