All Aboard Act of 2025

This bill would invest in rail across the country to add more service, make trains cleaner, cut pollution near rail lines, and improve safety. It sets up a state rail grant program , creates a Green Railroads Fund to speed up electric rail , expands passenger rail programs , starts an Environmental Protection Agency grant program to clean up railyard air , and establishes rail worker training centers. It also sets clean air and service goals, such as moving to zero-emission trains over time and shifting some short flights to rail.

Most funding runs for five years starting October 1, 2025.

• Who is affected: States, Amtrak, freight and passenger railroads, Tribes, rail equipment makers, public utilities, rail workers, and communities near rail lines, especially environmental justice communities.
• State support: Creates formula grants so states can plan, operate, maintain, and expand rail; each state gets at least $5 million per year; total of $3.5 billion over five years; includes technical help from federal agencies.
• Electric rail: Launches a $50 billion Green Railroads Fund to build electric rail corridors and yards, buy electric locomotives and trains, and make infrastructure climate‑resilient; requires local hiring, project labor agreements, and two‑person crews on funded freight operations; prioritizes projects that cut air pollution in environmental justice communities.
• Passenger rail growth: Provides $80 billion for corridor grants to expand and speed up service, with priority for high‑performance projects; provides $30 billion for Amtrak, including $5 billion for climate resilience; and $30 billion for rail infrastructure and safety grants that support cleaner, faster service.
• Safety and cleaner air: Sends $10 billion to remove or fix dangerous rail crossings (with at least half of crossing funds reserved for protective devices) and $500 million to the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce railyard air pollution.
• Workers and fair pay: Creates new passenger and freight rail workforce training centers and invests $500 million in training and apprenticeships; applies strong wage and labor protections; and lets Amtrak and states use certain federal grants to meet matching requirements for other rail grants.
• Goals and timing: Targets include 50% zero‑emission trains by 2030, all new trains zero‑emission by 2035, all locomotives zero‑emission by 2047, and a rail network ready to handle much more traffic by 2050; also aims to reconnect communities divided by tracks and shift some short‑haul flights to rail.