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 ...
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 ...
The Keystone Corridor is one of the few Amtrak routes actually designated as "higher speed rail" — with a top speed of 110 ...
Amtrak’s new Acela trains, called NextGen, are four years late arriving for passengers on the Boston-New York-Washington route, but still most Amtrak passengers on the Northeast Corridor (NEC) will ...
Amtrak's Keystone Service runs between Harrisburg and Philadelphia — 104 miles in 1 hour and 45 minutes, with a top speed of ...
DETROIT (AP) — Amtrak plans to spend $7.3 billion to replace 83 passenger trains, some nearly a half-century old, though much of the funding must still be approved by Congress. Amtrak said Wednesday ...