Passenger Rail

The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission organized a meeting of community and business stakeholders to start planning for passenger rail lines in the Columbus region.

Columbus is one of the biggest cities in America without passenger trains, and while that could change in the next decade, there are complications to keeping it on track.

Federal funding is helping to plan potential passenger rail routes across the state. But it likely will be years before the project comes to fruition.

Research firm Scioto Analysis found central Ohio could gain up to $48 million in the first year of a new passenger rail corridor being constructed, mostly from the jobs to build up the infrastructure.

Each December, a tiny museum in northwest Ohio puts on an elaborate display celebrating a Christmas icon: trains.

The Federal Railroad Administration has selected four routes serving Ohio and other states as priorities for Amtrak expansion, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio said Tuesday.

Columbus is the second-largest U.S. city without intercity rail. However, with the new infrastructure bill, rail service linking Ohio’s three C’s could be back on track. We’ll mark the 50th anniversary of Amtrak and plans to return rail travel between Ohio’s major cities.

President Biden has proposed spending $80 billion to upgrade and expand passenger rail service nationwide. In Ohio, that would allow Amtrak to connect Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Dayton.

President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan includes an $80 billion investment in passenger rail. Amtrak has announced one of the projects from that investment would be another crack at creating a train system that goes from Cincinnati to Cleveland.

The head of the Ohio Department of Transportation says the state is at a crossroads with policy on how to move people and products around safely and…