In the predawn hours Thursday morning, Amtrak gave members of the media a firsthand look at one of the battered East River tunnels ahead of its $1.6 billion plan to shut it down for more than a year to carry out its long-delayed repairs to damage caused by the 2012 storm.

The Federal Railroad Administration is in talks with Musk's Boring Company over the tunnel, according to the New York Times.

Elon Musk's tunneling firm, the Boring Company, had recent talks to assess if it could help with an Amtrak project in the Northeastern U.S., the New York Times reports .

The Federal Railroad Administration has brought in the tunneling company to see if it could help with a multibillion-dollar rail project.

The New York Times reports that Musk’s company is helping the government assess “the costs and progress” of the Frederick Douglass Tunnel program, a new underground Amtrak route that has been designed to replace an aging tunnel system that connects Baltimore to Washington and Virginia.

Transportation delays and cancellations are carrying over into Wednesday for train commuters after a huge warehouse fire shut down several rail lines in West Baltimore.

Federal railroad regulators are in talks with Elon Musk’s tunneling firm, The Boring Company (TBC), over a multibillion-dollar Amtrak project, according

At least 119 current and former Amtrak employees conspired with New York medical professionals to swindle the company's health care plan out of over $12 million, the Amtrak Office of the Inspector General said in a report released Tuesday of what it described as the largest employee conspiracy it has ever investigated.

Amtrak paid more than $12 million in fraudulent medical claims for its employees as part of a scheme involving crooked doctors, officials said.

The train company’s watchdog began investigating the jaw-dropping scheme after an agent noticed unusual billing patterns, according to the OIG’s office.

Of the 253 people on board Amtrak Train 188, eight passengers were killed, and more than 150 others were injured after the May 12, 2015, derailment.