From grand Beaux-Arts halls to coastal depots, these Amtrak stations are destinations you can explore on foot from the moment you arrive.

Oxford officials say designs for the planned Amtrak station on Chestnut Street are more than halfway completed and a groundbreaking on the train platform is on track to happen this year.

The concrete and steel rising all summer beside Baltimore’s Pennsylvania Station is a sign: Amtrak is on a long-delayed spiffing-up spree at its venerable stations, many of which have gone decades ...