Earlier this year, if you happened to be standing at a train station in New Jersey at a certain time of night, you might have seen a sleek new high-speed Acela zip by. The trains, which did 900 test ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Federal investigators have confirmed an Amtrak train was traveling at more than double the speed limit when it derailed near Tacoma, Washington, on Monday, sending rail cars onto a ...

PHILADELPHIA — How do all seven cars and the engine of an Amtrak train jump the rails, sending passengers, luggage, laptops and more flying? One possibility jumped ahead of all others Wednesday: speed ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) - Passengers on an Amtrak train are safe after it got stuck in a tunnel during a heat wave. Shortly after leaving Baltimore’s Penn Station, the Amtrak Northeast Regional 94 train ...

Amtrak wants close to $1.5 billion in bailout money from the federal government—several weeks after it received $1 billion. The rail company made the request for $1.475 billion to Congress in a letter ...