Amtrak has revealed the current progress of almost 30 high-speed rail infrastructure projects as part of its July update on ...

Massive changes to Amtrak and U.S. rail in general were announced in the Fiscal Year 2026 budget, which highlighted millions in funding for the company's busiest and most important routes, including ...

A map of construction sites along the Northeast Corridor, managed by Amtrak. Amtrak. The works have been separated into four categories of progress; concept planning, procurement, advanced ...

These changes would be welcome, but corridors outside the Amtrak-owned Northeast Corridor (NEC) face the same problems as existing or proposed state-supported corridors and trains. ... Indeed, it may ...

Amtrak requested $850 million for Northeast Corridor grants in the agency’s fiscal year 2026 budget. That is $291 million less than the $1.141 billion allocated in 2025.

map #1. Thousands of trains pass safely over these curves each month, but curves can be dangerous if trains go too fast, as seen in the Amtrak 188 crash and the December 2013 crash of a Metro ...

Amtrak has had as many as 20 Acela trains and plans to increase the fleet to 28, as part of a $2.45 billion investment to modernize train service in the Northeast Corridor.

Amtrak has canceled at least a dozen trains along the Northeast Corridor line between Washington, New York and Boston, citing extreme cold and another forecast round of snow. The federal passenger ...

Amtrak suspended part of its Northeast service on Sunday due to downed power wires and customers along the Northeast Corridor experienced delays of up to 60 minutes.In an alert posted on Monday ...

The catenary — the overhead structure that supplies electricity to trains — on the southern half of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor is about 80 years old and in frighteningly bad shape.