Step on board a newly upgraded Amtrak Superliner sleeper car on the California Zephyr and see inside a roomette I booked for a 15-hour journey.

AMSTERDAM — At 5:40 p.m. on the last Sunday before Christmas, the Amtrak Maple Leaf train pulled away from the tiny rail station in Amsterdam and rolled eastward 45 minutes behind schedule.

The agreement would end a years-long legal dispute over control of Union Station between Amtrak and a real estate company.

The “A Place for Every Piece” mural, a partnership between the City of Lancaster Public Art office and Art at Amtrak, made ...