Amtrak will debut five of its NextGen Acela trains on the Northeast Corridor Thursday, Aug. 28, with more seats and slightly faster trains between Washington, D.C., New York City and Boston. The ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Metro-North Railroad is planning to start running between New York City and Albany to make up for some of the cutbacks made by Amtrak. The service, which ...

Amtrak service from Albany to New York City was restored Tuesday evening, after a chemical spill and fire in Yonkers. Amtrak delayed trains for hours Tuesday while crews worked to clean up the mess.

NEW YORK — Commuters into New York City got pummeled by train delays and cancellations this summer, and nobody knows how to stop it from happening again. Even if they did, resuscitating the vital rail ...