{"id":303008,"date":"2026-10-09T10:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303008\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T10:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:34:10","slug":"amtrak-to-double-daily-pittsburgh-harrisburg-train-service-nov-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303008\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak to double daily Pittsburgh-Harrisburg train service Nov. 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amtrak will begin operating a second daily round trip between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg on Nov. 18, doubling passenger rail service on a route that connects western Pennsylvania with Philadelphia and New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion follows years of coordination among the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Amtrak and freight railroad Norfolk Southern.<\/p>\n<p>The additional service will give passengers more flexibility on Amtrak&#8217;s 444-mile Pennsylvanian route, which currently operates one daily round trip between Pittsburgh and New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The Shapiro administration has invested more than $80 million in the expansion. Pennsylvania also received $143 million in federal funding in 2023 to support infrastructure and safety improvements along the route.<\/p>\n<p>Construction on some of those improvements is already underway or complete, according to PennDOT.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the second daily train are now available through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amtrak.com\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amtrak&#8217;s website<\/a> and mobile app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amtrak will begin operating a second daily round trip between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg on Nov. 18, doubling passenger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-303008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303008","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=303008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}