The NextGen Acela trains will run with a top speed of 160 mph, out-speeding the current Acela fleet by 10 mph.

State lawmakers urged the legislature to approve an investment of $1 billion per year from cap-and-trade revenues.

When Amtrak announced earlier this month that its new NextGen Acela train would debut with stops on the New Haven Line, ...

The new Acela trains were built at Alstom’s facility in Hornell, NY, and are part of Amtrak’s broader fleet modernization ...

Not-so-fast trains America’s love-hate relationship with fast trains stretches back to October 1964, when Japanese National Railways opened its Shinkansen high-speed line between Tokyo and Osaka.

True high-speed rail has not yet made it to the U.S., but that will change soon. Here are the projects currently being developed. By Alexander Nazaryan In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed ...