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 ...

Amtrak recently made its annual budget request to Congress. If it gets its way — which is a big “if” — the passenger rail company would receive $3.6 billion, about 50% more than it got ...

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 ...