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Avelia Liberty is a tilting high-speed passenger train built for the North American market by French manufacturer Alstom and assembled in the United States. Amtrak has ordered 28 train sets for use on its flagship Acela service along the Northeast Corridor between Boston, New York, and Washington, promising higher frequency and capacity than the first-generation Acela.
Under the most common international definition of high-speed rail (speeds above 155 mph (250 km/h) on newly built lines and speeds above 124 mph (200 km/h) on upgraded lines), Amtrak's Acela is the United States' only true high-speed rail service, reaching 150 mph (240 km/h) over 49.9 miles (80.3 km) of track along the Northeast Corridor. [2]
In 2012, Amtrak proposed improvements to enable "true" high-speed rail on the corridor, which would have roughly halved travel times at an estimated cost of $151 billion. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] History
Amtrak is buying 28 trains from Alstom as part of a $2.3 billion program to modernize its fleet of Acela high-speed trainsets on the Northeast Corridor route between Boston and Washington, D.C ...
Amtrak, which contracted with Alstom to develop and manufacture 28 new high‐speed trainsets, initially was scheduled to begin customer service in May 2021 and has spent $1.6 billion on the program.
Even $66 billion in federal funding for rail in the 2021 infrastructure package is but a drop in the bucket of what it would take to build high-speed rail. The cost to build a such a network ...
Amtrak Texas High-Speed Rail Corridor: Dallas–Houston: Amtrak: HSR 1 Brightline West High-Speed Corridor: Rancho Cucamonga–Las Vegas: Nevada Department of Transportation: California High-Speed Rail Phase 1 Corridor: San Francisco–Los Angeles/Anaheim: California High-Speed Rail Authority: Cascadia High-Speed Ground Transportation ...
The fastest U.S. passenger train, the Amtrak Acela on the northeast corridor, travels up to 150 miles per hour (240kmh) but aging infrastructure prevents that top speed along much of the route.