Carnival Cruise Line announced plans to expand its offerings in the Crescent City, including voyages to its new private resort in the Bahamas, Celebration Key, and the return of the Carnival Dream in ...

Amtrak is bringing its Mardi Gras route to Alabama. Find out when the service starts and how much tickets will be ...

Merger talk is swirling around Union Pacific Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp., in a deal that could create a railroad mega-carrier and a huge transcontinental network spanning the U.S.

The line between New Orleans and Los Angeles consists of an impressive 1,995 miles of track. The Sunset Limited, a ...

The latest book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Ulysses S. Grant ...

Two Catlett firefighters died in 1989 crash with same train, the Amtrak Crescent, at same crossing while they were responding ...

A City Council committee is reviewing progress on a proposed 90-minute passenger rail route between New Orleans and Baton ...

The Amtrak route between Mobile, Alabama and New Orleans returns this August after a 20-year hiatus—and tickets start at just ...

The Mardi Gras Service, starting on Aug. 18, will connect New Orleans and Mobile, Ala., by train for the first time since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Nine of the 10 Orleans Parish Prison inmates have now been recaptured following their May 16 jailbreak . Only one, Derrick Groves, remains on the lam.

A total of 10 inmates escaped in a New Orleans jail break on May 16. Escaped inmate Antoine Massey was caught, and Derrick Groves remains at large.

Antoine Massey, a serial escapee who vanished from a New Orleans jail with nine other inmates just after midnight on May 16, has been apprehended in New Orleans, the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s ...