Amtrak retires trains when the cost and effort to keep them running no longer make sense. After decades of service, the metal structure weakens, wiring systems degrade, and mechanical components begin ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... PUEBLO — When lawyer Jim Koncilja saw China and Europe developing 200-mile-per-hour bullet trains, he wanted to revive the passenger rail service that once ...

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 ...