Amtrak
American intercity passenger rail operator
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| 2025 | Construction of a pair of two-track replacement bridges is expected to begin. |
| April 2025 | Began restoring some rail trips with reduced capacity using Amfleet cars after replacing Horizon cars. |
| March 2025 | Most Cascades train trips were replaced with bus services after Amtrak withdrew numerous railcars from service, leaving only a single trainset available to serve the route. |
| March 19 2025 | Stephen Gardner steps down as CEO amid potential Amtrak privatization discussions initiated by the Trump administration and Elon Musk. |
| 2025 | New customs inspection area at Vancouver's Pacific Central Station is scheduled for completion, which will eliminate the secondary inspection stop in Blaine and save 10 minutes on southbound trips. |
| March 2025 | Amtrak announced plans to use accent colors at the end of stripes on Phase VII passenger cars to indicate service levels: red for first class, light blue for business class, and green for coach class. |
| January 2025 | Final report of the Long-Distance Service Study was released, providing a foundation for future long-distance passenger rail service planning and recommending routes to improve access for rural and underserved populations. |
| 2024 | Amtrak set a new all-time record with 32.8 million passengers. |
| 2024 | A Canadian passenger rail advocacy group recommended 10 infrastructure improvements between White Rock and Vancouver, estimated to cost CAD$127.6 million, to potentially add a Blaine stop and improve operational performance. |
| 2024 | Amtrak Cascades reached a record high of over 941,000 passengers, representing a 41 percent increase from the previous year. |
| 2024 | Platform to be built in Oakley, California for service on the San Joaquins route. |
| December 2024 | Removal of the ten remaining piers of the 1866 bridge was completed, with several stones preserved for use by Perryville and Havre de Grace municipalities. |
| December 2024 | Passenger cars started receiving the new Phase VII paint design. |
| November 2024 | A Talgo trainset was damaged by a tree during an extratropical cyclone. |
| November 2024 | Amtrak truncated the Silver Star at Washington and merged it with the Capitol Limited, creating a new direct train route called the Floridian between Chicago and Miami. This restored direct train service between the Midwest and Florida for the first time since 1979. |
| February 2024 | FRA released its preferred draft network of fifteen new long-distance routes, proposing to increase Amtrak's network by 23,200 route miles and potentially serve an additional 45 million people. |
| January 2024 | Removal of the ten remaining piers of the 1866 bridge began. |
| January 2024 | Amtrak began repainting Genesis locomotives in the Phase VII livery due to depletion of Phase V paint supplies at Beech Grove Shops. |
| 2023 | Amtrak's ridership increased to 28.6 million passengers. |
| 2023 | Northwest Railway Museum acquired a Talgo VI Bistro car (No. 7304). |
| 2023 | Baseline year for ridership comparison before a significant increase in 2024. |
| 2023 | In fiscal year 2023, Amtrak Cascades experienced a 64 percent on-time performance rate, which was among the lowest for state-supported Amtrak routes. |
| 2023 | Station plans for De Soto, Missouri were announced, marking a potential return of passenger rail service after the previous service ended in 1971. |
| December 2023 | Amtrak awarded the main construction contract and two supporting contracts for the bridge replacement project. |
| December 11 2023 | Seattle–Portland service expanded to six round trips, adding two additional round trips that were originally intended to start in 2017. |
| December 1 2023 | Federal Railroad Administration accepted DRPT's application for the Commonwealth Corridor route into its Corridor Identification and Development Program. |
| November 2023 | Amtrak was awarded $2.1 billion for the bridge replacement project from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. |
| October 2023 | WSDOT made public a summary of its preliminary service development plan, offering five conceptual options for future rail service. The most aggressive option proposed increasing round trips to 16 between Seattle and Portland and 6 between Vancouver and Seattle. |
| August 2023 | Amtrak introduced its first battery electric bus on the Cascades service, marking a technological advancement in the transportation corridor's sustainability efforts. |
| April 3 2023 | Full service to Montreal resumed, though Port Kent station remained closed due to ongoing suspension of the Port Kent-Burlington Ferry service. |
| March 7 2023 | Round trip service between Portland and Vancouver was restored, reestablishing the second Seattle–Vancouver trip that existed before the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| February 2023 | FRA published materials indicating the study of 18 discontinued long-distance Amtrak routes, including four routes discontinued in 1971: the City of Miami, George Washington, Pan-American, and San Francisco Chief. |
| 2022 | Amtrak saw an increase in ridership to 22.9 million passengers. |
| 2022 | Amtrak introduced Phase VII paint scheme, first debuting on Siemens Charger ALC-42 locomotives, featuring two tones of blue with a curved white stripe, black cab window area with red and white stripes, and matching red and white sill stripes. |
| 2022 | Burlington station opened in Vermont |
| November 2022 | Amtrak officially announced plans to replace the Susquehanna River Bridge, with design and construction contracts to be awarded in 2023. |
| September 2022 | Work on the Amtrak Daily Long-Distance Service Study officially began. |
| September 26 2022 | Service between Seattle and Vancouver was resumed after pandemic-related suspension. |
| July 11 2022 | Service changes added a second daily Roanoke round trip and an additional Norfolk weekday round trip, resulting in a 29% ridership increase compared to July 2019. |
| June 27 2022 | Southwest Chief train derailed after colliding with a dump truck at a railroad crossing in Mendon, Missouri, causing 4 deaths and 150 injuries. |
| May 1 2022 | Amtrak and Virginia Passenger Rail Authority reached an agreement to build an Amtrak platform at Crystal City, expected to be completed by 2026. |
| February 2022 | Amtrak crews conducted practice trips between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, in preparation for service resumption. |
| 2021 | The route experienced an on-time performance of 58.7%. |
| 2021 | Amtrak reported 12.2 million total passengers for the fiscal year, with 4.4 million passengers on the Northeast Corridor and 2.35 million passengers on California corridor trains. |
| 2021 | Amtrak Cascades experienced a significant ridership decline to 181,500 passengers, which represents a 47.2% decrease compared to the previous year, likely due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic impacts on travel. |
| 2021 | The on-time performance of Amtrak Cascades was 58.7% during the fiscal year. |
| December 9 2021 | Amtrak wrapped ACS-64 locomotive No. 662 in a modified Phase III livery as a promotional item for Train Sim World 2 video game. |
| November 2021 | Congress passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which included Section 22214 ordering the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to study the restoration of discontinued long-distance Amtrak routes and potential new routes. |
| November 18 2021 | Amtrak Cascades service resumed on the Point Defiance Bypass, nearly four years after the deadly 2017 derailment. |
| September 25 2021 | Amtrak train derailment in Joplin, Montana due to a track defect, resulting in 3 deaths and 50 injuries. |
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