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Just ahead of Labor Day 2025, Amtrak debuted its NextGen Acela trains on its Northeast Corridor route between Washington, D.C., and Boston. To snag a seat on the new trains, customers should look for ...

Commuting regularly between New York and Philadelphia is often a drag, largely because of Amtrak and its slow, smelly trains. In the introduction of the NextGen Acela last week, I hoped to find a ...

Amtrak will begin deploying its new fleet of high-speed trains later this month, connecting major cities in the Northeast Corridor. The trains, known as Amtrak’s NextGen Acela, will run 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 the new train. The NextGen Acela featured a sleek new design, more ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) David Alff, University at Buffalo (THE CONVERSATION) When former President Joe Biden ...