NEW YORK — The fastest trains in Amtrak's fleet are getting even faster. The first of those NextGen Acela trains, as Amtrak calls them, are scheduled to start running on the Northeast Corridor between ...

Step onto an Amtrak train and you’re likely to enter a compact car with the stale odor that comes with thousands of riders passing through a decades-old train. That’s not the case for the spacious new ...

Five new Amtrak trains will begin rolling out between Washington, DC, New York and Boston at top speeds of 160 mph starting Thursday. The inaugural NextGen Acela ride is taking off from Washington’s ...

Amtrak NextGen Acela is the train line's new fleet serving express stops in the Northeast corridor.Joey Hadden/Business Insider I had no business in Washington, DC, when I traveled there on a rainy ...

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