Sacramento Bee editorial writer Tom Philp talks about the Sacramento sighting on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, of an Amtrak ...

Traveling by train isn’t the fastest way to get from Chicago to San Francisco, but it offers a very different experience from flying. The California Zephyr, one of Amtrak’s longest routes, spans ...

Five Amtrak passengers remain missing after a deadly collision between an California Zephyr train and a big rig killed at least six people in Nevada. Authorities are carefully inspecting the collision ...

Katrina Schwartz: Today, we’re starting our show on a train! The California Zephyr. It’s Amtrak line goes from Emeryville, passes through Sacramento and Truckee, before heading east, all the way to ...

Q: We recently traveled on Amtrak's California Zephyr from Chicago to Sacramento. It was not a good experience. When we entered the sleeper bedroom, it was readily apparent that the visual depiction ...