WASHINGTON — While the first quarter of the 2026 fiscal year produced record results on several fronts, equipment constraints ...

The new train is expected to reach speeds of 160 miles per hour. Amtrak’s long-awaited new Acela trains are debuting this month, just in time for Labor Day. The NextGen Acela trains will officially ...

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 launched its new Acela fleet in August. At 160 miles per hour, it's the fastest US train. Known as the NextGen Acela, the train has two classes — business and first. I recently traveled in both ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amtrak launched a new high-speed Acela train in August 2025. I rode business class on the old Acela in 2022 and again in 2025 on ...

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 ...

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New Yorkers joined Amtrak employees to welcome the arrival of the railroad’s first official passenger run of its second-generation high-speed train at the Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station Thursday.

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 ...

Just ahead of Labor Day 2025, Amtrak debuted its NextGen Acela trains on its Northeast Corridor route between Washington, D.C., and Boston. The first new trains departed from Washington, D.C., at 5 ...