Whois & Analysis for amtrak.com

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, (stylized as AMTRAK) is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States.

Founded in 1971 to take over most of the remaining U.S. passenger rail services, it is partially government funded yet operated and managed as a for-profit corporation.

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere.

It can also be considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, and to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea.

A bus (archaically also omnibus, multibus, motorbus, autobus) is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers.

Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers.

The most common type of bus is the single-decker rigid bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are used for longer-distance services.

Many types of buses, such as city transit buses and inter-city coaches, charge a fare.

Other types, such as elementary or secondary school buses or shuttle buses within a post-secondary education campus do not charge a fare.

In many jurisdictions, bus drivers require a special licence above and beyond a regular driver's licence.

A train is a form of rail transport consisting of a series of vehicles that usually runs along a rail track to transport cargo or passengers.

Motive power is provided by a separate locomotive or individual motors in self-propelled multiple units.

Although historically steam propulsion dominated, the most common modern forms are diesel and electric locomotives, the latter supplied by overhead wires or additional rails.

Other energy sources include horses, engine or water-driven rope or wire winch, gravity, pneumatics, batteries, and gas turbines.

Train tracks usually consist of two running rails, sometimes supplemented by additional rails such as electric conducting rails and rack rails, with a limited number of monorails and maglev guideways in the mix.

The word 'train' comes from the Old French trahiner, from the Latin trahere 'pull, draw'.