Amtrak blames the poor economy and reduced business travel for the decline in Acela's ticket sales.
Its signature line, the high-speed Acela, operates in the Northeast and is aimed at premium-paying business travelers.
Amtrak says its Acela Express and Northeast Regional Service between New York and New Haven are indefinitely suspended.
Bloomberg reports that ridership on Acela is down 10% for October-January from the same period a year ago.
Between New York and Washington the train dominates, with 75% of the market, including via its high speed Acela service.
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He quickly bought another ticket, and the two men flew to New York and then rushed to catch the Acela to Washington.
An Acela train coming from Boston was searched and "cleared" near Norwalk, Connecticut, on Friday morning, according to Amtrak spokesman Cliff Cole.
Starting sometime in the 2020s, the hyper speedy "NextGen" trains will replace Acela trains, which were first introduced in 2000, Kulm said.
The only Amtrak train remaining on the corridor between New York and Boston, a northbound Acela, will terminate in Providence, the spokesman said.
By comparison, our Acela Express, which has daily runs from Boston to Washington, DC, can only go up to 150 miles per hour.
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I'd lost a lot of big fish in those helter-skelter first few seconds when you feel like you've hooked the Acela on its way to Boston.
Amtrak announced Friday afternoon it wouldn't operate Acela Express service Saturday between New York and Boston, though the express trains will continue to run south of New York.
The Acela is the flagship line of Amtrak, the government-owned company that runs the US railways, a vast network which is reporting a post-war record for numbers of passengers.
During a three hour Acela train ride to New York from Massachusetts on Oct. 24, those stories had me thinking about the small town that made me, to the big cities that broke me.
On Dec. 14, while he was riding Amtrak's Acela train from New York to Washington, he opened an e-mail that detailed problems in the auction-rate markets, which were seizing up because of the blossoming credit crisis.
In the richest country in the world, the only line that passes for "high-speed rail" is Amtrak's built-too-wide Acela train, which runs between Boston, New York, and Washington at an average speed of about 80mph.
Let me say of myself and almost everyone I know in the press, all the chattering classes and political strategists and inside dopesters of the Amtrak Acela Line: We live in a bubble and have around us bubble people.
Rogoff has had an instrumental role in advising policy makers on the operating and capital needs of Amtrak, including the initiation and financing of high speed Acela service, as well as the financing of dozens of new light rail and bus rapid transit systems across the United States.
The money will be used to upgrade tracks in the northeast so Acela trains can run up to 160 miles per hour on some New Jersey and Pennsylvania tracks (it now rarely exceeds 70 miles per hour), and build a new spur through Queens, so Boston-bound trains can travel on separate tracks from New York commuter trains.
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