The fastest train in America rides on one of the country’s oldest railroad tracks. A quarter century after the Acela began ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) - Passengers on an Amtrak train are safe after it got stuck in a tunnel during a heat wave. Shortly after leaving Baltimore’s Penn Station, the Amtrak Northeast Regional 94 train ...

As I rocketed out of Shanghai aboard a train at nearly 200 miles an hour, the speed reduced the trees outside my window to greenish blurs. I had the out-of-body sense that I was fast-forwarding my way ...

Amtrak is launching a new high-speed Acela train, but there is one wrinkle: It isn’t actually faster, yet. Five next-generation Acela trains begin service Thursday as part of a $2.45 billion project ...