WASHINGTON – Amtrak said Friday it will offer discounts of as much as 15 percent for some tickets on its Acela Express and Metroliner premium trains that run between Washington and Boston, expanding ...

On a recent sultry afternoon, as heat waves danced above the train tracks dividing the eastern Baltimore County communities of Harewood Park and Oliver Beach, a northbound Amtrak Metroliner roared ...

Just one day after entering regular passenger service, Amtrak's high-speed Acela Express train was sidelined Tuesday as mechanics fixed the metal bars that connect the train to overhead electrical ...

One of the most venerable names in passenger trains, Amtrak’s Metroliner, is headed to the terminal for the last time. This month, Amtrak rolled out a new name for its Washington-New York-Boston ...

Amtrak on Jan. 18 released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a new fleet of single-level passenger cars to replace its dependable but decades-old, 470-unit stable of Amfleet I and ex-Metroliner cars, ...

Equipment problems and unreliable service are forcing Amtrak to adjust its high-speed Acela Express service, once a major source of optimism for the passenger railroad. The sleek trains, introduced ...

Ronald Utt is the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Senior Research Fellow. Since its creation in the early 1970s, Amtrak has received a total of $29 billion in federal subsidies and billions more from states ...

W A S H I N G T O N, Dec. 12 -- Just one day after entering regular passenger service, Amtrak’s high-speed Acela Express train was sidelined today as mechanics fixed the metal bars that connect the ...

Amtrak said all of its Acela and Metroliner trains between New York and Boston returned to full service on Friday, three days after a derailed freight train damaged hundreds of feet of overhead ...

There was a moment during the inaugural run of a German high-speed train along Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor earlier this month when the future of train travel literally overtook the present. It was ...