When I rode in business and first class on the Amtrak NextGen Acela train, I wasn't expecting color-coded cars or new and ...
Amtrak's NextGen Acela can reach high speeds of up to 160 mph and welcomes more passengers per train, but it does have one uncomfortable and unchangeable issue.
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 ...
Last month, Amtrak unveiled new high-speed trains on the Northeast Corridor, a rail line that connects Boston and Washington, ...
Amtrak's NextGen Acela trains have all sorts of new features to speed up travel time and accommodate today's commuters.
I finally had a chance to ride the new NextGen Acela and I have to admit, I was wrong:  this really is Amtrak’s train of the ...
The NextGen Acela trains, as Amtrak calls them, are faster and lighter than the current fleet. They're scheduled to start ...
Later, there was an issue with the doors being stuck in New Haven. Passengers needed to walk to a different car to get off the train. At 8:40 a.m., I received an email that the train was running 20 ...
Amtrak has launched the "future of high-speed rail." The mass transit provider added new NextGen Acela trains to its fleet this week that will run along the Northeast Corridor from Washington D.C. to ...
High-speed rail is one of the most efficient ways to travel for medium-range trips, and although the U.S. has been slow to upgrade its aging railway infrastructure, as the American Society of Civil ...
More than 275,000 people have rolled through south-central Wisconsin on Amtrak’s Borealis train line since it began in May ...