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 ...

A New York City destined Amtrak train waits at the Albany-Rensselaer Amtrak station on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, in Rensselaer, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union) Interior of Amtrak Turbo Train.

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 ...

Each Amtrak Turboliner weighs about 400 tons. They may be scrapped by the state for as little at 10 cents per pound. Cuomo’s director of state operations, Howard Glaser, has called the project “New ...