Despite $27 billion in federal subsidies, Amtrak is still one more government bailout away from bankruptcy. In End of the Line: The Failure of Amtrak Reform and the Future of America’s Passenger Trains (AEI Press, December 2004), Amtrak advocate-turned-critic Joseph Vranich argues that reform efforts have failed and...

It's past time for someone in Congress to apply the brakes to the run-away Amtrak train.

I want to help Amtrak. I hereby nominate the following candidates for the job opening as president.

New Yorkers can cheer yesterday's decision by Amtrak's board to dismiss the railroad's president, David Gunn, and begin a search for "a leader with vision and experience."

Amtrak was launched on May 1, 1971, with the promise to revive America’s intercity passenger trains. Thirty five years later, many believe that America’s experiment with nationalized rail service has failed. Although it was supposed to become self-sufficient within a few years of its inception, Amtrak has absorbed $30 billion...

Does America need long-distance trains? Is Amtrak politically invulnerable? Is Amtrak needed in case of a terror attack on airlines?

Afterthirty-four years and nearly $30 billion in federal subsidies to Amtrak, the American people deserve better.

Amtrak subsidies have risen one-third since the Republicans took the House of Representatives; itis time for the federal government to stop subsidizing Amtrak.