It's a train company for various passenger trains such as Pacific Surfliner, Coast Starlight, Southwest Chief, Piedmont, California Zephyr, Empire Builder, Cascades, Amtrak California, and much much more.
The United States Congress "founded" Amtrak when it passed The Rail Passenger Service Act (PL 91-518) of 1970. This legislation was signed into law by President Richard Nixon.
Amtrak was created in the 1970s because private railroad corporations such as Union Pacific did not want to run their passenger railroad services anymore because they deemed them as not profitable...