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Amtrak's New Trains Are Finally Hitting The Rails After Years Of Delay—Here's What We Know

In 2024, Amtrak, the nationalized passenger rail system of the United States of America, served 32.8 million customers. This marks the highest number of customers served in a single year in Amtrak's ...

Amtrak rail sets record with more than 34 million riders in 2025

Amtrak’s ridership broke records this year after the national railroad introduced new routes across the US and upgraded ...
WLOX

Passenger trains rolling again as Amtrak returns to South Mississippi

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (WLOX) - It’s been nearly 20 years, but passenger rail service is back on the Gulf Coast for the first time since Hurricane Katrina derailed the existing passenger service. “The ...
WBUR

Now boarding! Amtrak launches higher speed trains between Boston and D.C.

East Coast travel may get a little quicker. Amtrak debuted a faster new train Thursday called "NextGen Acela" that will be able to hit a top speed of 160 mph. Amtrak's original high-speed Acela trains ...
NPR

Amtrak's flagship Acela trains get a long-awaited upgrade

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 ...
Crain's New York

Amtrak launches new Acela trains for faster commutes

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 ...