ALBANY – Amtrak cannot afford to make track improvements necessary to handle trains traveling 125 mph, and state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno is not happy. Three turboliners have already ...

An Amtrak Turboliner on the Chicago-St. Louis route EPA/Wikimedia Commons In 1972—40 years before Amtrak would celebrate the coming of 110-mile-an-hour, moderately high-speed rail from Chicago ...

Jack Madigan/Times Union Archive An Amtrak Turboliner train stops at the Rensselaer station in 1976. New York bought a fleet of the sleek, French-designed turbotrains, with oversized windows ...

And it would take more than a set of jumper cables to start the massive fuel-hungry turbine engines that powered the Turboliner trains ... Originally put in Amtrak service decades ago, the ...