Amtrak's NextGen Acela trains have all sorts of new features to speed up travel time and accommodate today's commuters.

Last month, Amtrak unveiled new high-speed trains on the Northeast Corridor, a rail line that connects Boston and Washington, ...

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 NextGen Acela trains, as Amtrak calls them, are faster and lighter than the current fleet. They're scheduled to start ...

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 York City's Penn Station on ...

East Coast travel may get a little quicker. Amtrak debuted a faster new train Thursday called “NextGen Acela” that will be able to hit a top speed of 160 mph. Amtrak’s original high-speed Acela trains ...

Amtrak's NextGen Acela high-speed trains are now racing passengers between Boston, New York and Washington, D.C., hitting top speeds of 160 miles per hour. Leo Friedman and his mother, Phyllis, ...

Amtrak is proudly boasting that its new Acela trains increase their top speed by 10 miles per hour to 160 miles per hour — after a more than 20-year development period (“Celebrating new Acela, with a ...

TRENTON, New Jersey -- Accelerated track repairs at New York's Penn Station in the wake of recent derailments will require two or three "significant" disruptions to weekday service this summer, Amtrak ...