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Documents released last week by state officials allege that numerous safety violations led to a September 2023 natural gas fire in Toppenish that killed a man and injured another.
Prompted by an on-the-job injury in which a teenager lost both legs at a construction site while earning class credit, the state’s workplace safety agency has adopted new internal guidelines ...
Amtrak is relocating Amfleet railcars from around the country to help restore service in the Pacific Northwest after the ...
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Amtrak Cascades service resumed on Monday after it was paused last week to replace cars in the train.
The Amtrak Cascades lines are now fully up and running after all but one were suddenly removed from service eleven days ago.
An Amtrak train headed for Vancouver, British Columbia. (Photo by Ron LaRue) Amtrak is moving train cars to the Northwest from other parts of the country to swap in for 26 cars abruptly pulled from ...
The issues with the Horizon-class railcars left Amtrak Cascades with just one working trainset. With the arrival of the additional cars, two trains between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, — ...
The Coast Starlight, a long-distance Amtrak train, makes the same stops as the regional Cascades service on its once-daily departure between Seattle and California. Service on that route has not ...
Even before the removal, passenger rail advocates, according to Banse, "were trying to light a fire under the Washington Legislature and WSDOT (Washington State Department of Transportation) to aim ...
Amtrak is moving train cars to the Northwest from other parts of the country to swap in for 26 cars abruptly pulled from service in late March due to corrosion problems. The issues with the ...
"All Amtrak Cascades trains are restored and operating on schedule," Amtrak spokesperson Kelly Just confirmed to KGW on April 6. The service restoration comes after Amtrak began relocating Amfleet ...