Americans don’t understand high-speed trains—where they work and where they don’t. And why. And no wonder! A very small percentage of Americans haveever seen a high-speed train, much less traveled...

In December, one of the Cascades trains derailed near Tacoma, Washington, when it went into a curve at close to 80 miles an hour … a curve with a speed...

Last Sunday, I traveled from New York City to Washington, DC, on a conventional Amtrak train (Northeast Regional #153) which covered the 225-mile route in 3 hours and 25 minutes,...

 For more than a dozen years, Amtrak has pretty much been the most popular way to travel between Boston and New York and between New York and Washington.   Those...