WASHINGTON -- Amtrak's high-speed Acela Express is returning to service sooner than planned, with nine trains set to run on Monday, the railroad said. The trains, which can reach speeds of 150 mph, ...

After riding in business class on the original Amtrak Acela train in 2022, I wanted to try booking the same ticket on the brand-new NextGen Acela.

New Yorkers joined Amtrak employees to welcome the arrival of the railroad’s first official passenger run of its second-generation high-speed train at the Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station Thursday.

The vast majority of train trips in America are pretty leisurely and slow. Most of the time, train travel is a romantic way to get around, but it’s not necessarily a fast one. That is, unless you live ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When former President Joe Biden unveiled his US$1.9 trillion infrastructure plan in 2021, he found the perfect place to go public: Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station rail yard. Over ...

As Georgetown students begin to embark on trips along the Northeast Corridor for spring break, those opting to travel on Amtrak’s Acela Express have a new user-friendly feature at their disposal: ...

I booked a business-class ticket on an Amtrak Acela train from Baltimore to New York City in 2022. For $120, I sat in a business-class window seat with a tray table, footrest, and a café car nearby. A ...

WASHINGTON (AP) The fast train that is critical to Amtrak s future is off to a slow start. In service eight months, Acela Express is falling short of projections in riders and revenue. Reimbursement ...

B O S T O N, Nov. 17 -- For decades, the people running Amtrak had towince when Americans returning from overseas train tripsproclaimed: “Why can’t you do that here?” U.S. rail officials think they’ve ...

Amtrak slashed its Acela Express high-speed train service in the Northeast again yesterday after discovering new cracks in four of the locomotives that were returned to service this week, forcing ...