Amtrak unveiled its long awaited NextGen Acela trains Thursday, introducing sleeker and faster equipment to the Northeast corridor while the company grapples with mounting financial pressures and ...

When Amtrak announced earlier this month that its new NextGen Acela train would debut with stops on the New Haven Line, officials said the train is capable of speeds as fast as 160 mph. “NextGen Acela ...

It's not exactly a bullet train. A new high-speed Amtrak train has officially made its first tracks along the Northeast Corridor. The NextGen Acela had its inaugural ride from Washington, D.C., to New ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) - Passengers on an Amtrak train are safe after it got stuck in a tunnel during a heat wave. Shortly after leaving Baltimore’s Penn Station, the Amtrak Northeast Regional 94 train ...

Aug. 27 (UPI) --Rail passengers in the nation's Northeast Corridor can travel aboard Amtrak's NextGen Acela high-speed rail service that launched on Wednesday morning. The new rail service began ...

When America's first railroad, the Baltimore & Ohio line, opened in 1830, it was the first thread in a web that would span a continent. What began as a modest 14 miles of track between Baltimore and ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — The state's High-Speed Rail Commission is looking at using Decatur as a feeder into the high-speed rail system between Chicago and St. Louis. Other cities which could be feeder ...

Amtrak’s latest service cuts have now been in effect for about a month. The cuts are expected to last three years and are because of construction on the East River Tunnels in New York City. The ...

A deacon who helped prevent what authorities say could have been a mass shooting at a Michigan church received a new pickup truck. The U.S. government says it's placing a 17% duty on most fresh ...

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a video released Monday that he will run an independent campaign for New York City mayor, weeks after losing the Democratic primary.