New Amtrak Acela trains launched along the Northeast Corridor Thursday, servicing cities from Boston to Washington, D.C.

The first public trip from New York was scheduled to pick up passengers and depart New York City just before 10 a.m. Thursday.

The NextGen Acela trains, as Amtrak calls them, are faster and lighter than the current fleet. They're scheduled to start revenue service along the Northeast Corridor on Thursday.

At about 9 a.m. local time on Thursday, the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. arrived by train in Greenwood, Mississippi. He traveled for nearly 13 hours from Chicago aboard the Amtrak City of New Orleans. This ...

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America’s fastest passenger train is here — and it was built in Hornell, New York, according to the Hornell Evening Tribune. Amtrak’s NextGen Acela trains, made by Alstom, launched Aug. 28 with speeds ...

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