When Amtrak announced earlier this month that its new NextGen Acela train would debut with stops on the New Haven Line, ...

Compare that to Florida East Coast Railway freight trains. Their maximum speed is 60 mph, and TCPalm clocked one doing 22 mph in Fort Pierce Friday. “They don’t go as fast as I thought ...

Others were impressed – but differently. Brightline conducts speed and brake tests in the Treasure and Space coasts regions. The train seen here is crossing Walton Road in Port St. Lucie at 110 mph.

Sixty miles an hour is too fast for BNSF trains to be roaring through downtown Devils Lake, N.D. The railroad has informed the city it intends to raise speed from 30 mph to 60 mph in order to ...

Seemingly an instant later, the sleek-nosed train shot past at 110 mph, its loping diesel power just audible, followed by steel-wheels-on-steel-track singing with notes of sharpening a butcher’s ...