Amtrak

The labor impasse doesn’t involve workers who operate Amtrak trains, such as those that run on the Cascade corridor in Oregon and Washington. But those trains operate on tracks controlled by freight railroad companies and maintained by the employees who would be out on strike.

Four years after an Amtrak train jumped the tracks along the Point Defiance Bypass in Washington State, service is resuming.

Amtrak says it will restore daily service on 12 long distance routes across the country, including two that run through the Pacific Northwest.

Daily service would be restored to long-distance Amtrak trains in the latest stimulus package under discussion in Congress. That includes the Coast Starlight, which stops in Albany and Eugene on its way from Seattle to Los Angeles.

National Transportation Safety Board officials raised questions at an investigative hearing this week about the problematic curve where the deadly Washington derailment occurred.

Amtrak Cascades and Coast Starlight services are suspended between Portland and Seattle until 10 p.m. Sunday.

Amtrak says it has found no evidence of criminal intent in the case of a gay PSU student found unconscious near train tracks in California, suggesting he may have attempted suicide.

Members of Oregon's congressional delegation want a full report on an investigation into a gay PSU student whose unconscious body was found near train tracks in Northern California.

There are still a lot of unanswered questions about why the Amtrak 501 train hit a 30 mile per hour curve at nearly 80 miles per hour. But here’s a snapshot of what we do know.

When Monday’s inaugural trip of the Amtrak Cascades train along its new route crashed south of Tacoma, the lives of hundreds of people were thrown into chaos.