A fatal private plane crash Friday, April 11, on tracks used by Tri-Rail and Amtrak trains caused cancellation of the day's northbound Floridian and its counterpart east from Chicago today (Sunday ...

Amtrak launched a new temporary route last fall called “the Floridian” — the name of a route that was discontinued in 1979. This version of the Floridian, it said, would travel from Chicago ...

What was left of the “Star” was combined with the “Capitol” as a train that Amtrak calls the Floridian. Unlike the train of the same name from the 1970s that used a more-direct route between Chicago ...

Amtrak already uses that route for its Floridian train, which runs daily between Miami and Chicago, with five stops in North Carolina. State Secretary of Transportation Joey Hopkins says NCDOT was ...