Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Amtrak NextGen Acela is the fastest train in the US. I booked a business-class ticket from New York City to Washington, DC, ...

A quarter century after the Acela began whisking passengers between Washington, D.C.; New York; and Boston, the Acela’s slightly faster replacement finally began service at the end of August. But the ...

Since the rise of commercial air travel, getting from one place to another has been about speed. Train travel, on the other hand, celebrates the opposite — a slower, more scenic, and far more ...