I rode in first class on the Amtrak NextGen Acela, the fastest US train with perks like a complimentary meal, lounge access, ...
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 ...
The NextGen Acela might be America's answer to Japan's famous bullet trains. "Might" being the operative word. Amtrak is betting big on high-speed rail, and on August 28, 2025, the shiny NextGen ...
A new high-speed Amtrak train has officially made its first tracks along the Northeast Corridor. The NextGen Acela had its inaugural ride from Washington, D.C., to New York City's Penn Station on ...
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 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 ...
New York School of Design student Anastasiia Lukinskaia created the outfit, beating out fellow students who all showed their ...
In “High-speed rail is a distraction. Just make the trains better” (Opinion, Oct. 28), Alan Wirzbicki argues that what’s more important to passengers on Amtrak’s new NextGen Acela trains is quality Wi ...
America’s shiny new Acela trains can technically hit 257 km/h – so why are passengers still crawling along the Connecticut coast? The answer lies in politics, not engineering. What’s the political ...