{"id":259187,"date":"2026-08-04T21:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259187\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T21:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:16:10","slug":"amtrak-adds-second-train-from-pittsburgh-to-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259187\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak adds second train from Pittsburgh to New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh gets more passenger train service; Amtrak to add second NYC train<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/853c053a-375d-4f49-afda-568da22e36ea_1727472834.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Caitlyn Scott\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Amtrak is adding a second train, taking riders from Pittsburgh to a popular East Coast destination. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">During a streamed public meeting on July 29, Amtrak&#8217;s board of directors said a second train will take Pittsburgh riders to New York City and points in between. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Officials said the new journey is expected to be added later this year. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Crews have spent the last few years upgrading the tracks and stations along the route \u2014  thanks to a partnership between PennDOT and Norfolk Southern. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Amtrak recently reported that it saw a record of 34.5 million riders last year. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/get-pittsburgh-s-action-news-4-on-the-go-wtae\/44045498\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh gets more passenger train service; Amtrak to add second NYC train PITTSBURGH \u2014 Amtrak is adding a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[894,36118,14869,14906,110014,238,139,1184,6402,3431,73,75,74,4900,110013,7695,25197,7092],"class_list":["post-259187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county","tag-amtrak","tag-board","tag-director","tag-last-few-year","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-norfolk-southern","tag-partnership","tag-penndot","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-public-meeting","tag-second-train","tag-station","tag-thank","tag-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}