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Amtrak has delayed the rollout of its upcoming high-speed Acela trains to 2024. The new trains will have more seats, speed, and comfort. See inside the upcoming train cars with a modernized cafe ...
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]
U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak's $2.3 billion plan to replace its high-speed Acela train cars is more than three years behind schedule and faces more likely price hikes and further delays, a ...
Higher-speed rail (HrSR), [1] also known as high-performance rail, [2] higher-performance rail, [3] semi-high-speed rail or almost-high-speed rail, [4] is the jargon used to describe inter-city passenger rail services that have top speeds of more than conventional rail but are not high enough to be called high-speed rail services. [5]
As of December 2023, a total of 69 passenger rail corridors have been accepted into the Corridor ID Program. Of these, 7 are new high-speed rail routes, 34 are new conventional rail routes, 13 are existing routes with proposed extensions, and 15 are existing routes with proposed upgrades.
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.
Come fall of 2023, there will be a new fast train between Washington, D.C. and Boston. Amtrak’s new Acela fleet is replacing trains more than 20 years old. See how the new trains go from ...
Corridor as designated by the Federal Railroad Administration. The Southeast Corridor (SEC) is a proposed passenger rail transportation project in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States to extend high-speed passenger rail services from the current southern terminus of the Northeast Corridor in Washington, D.C. Routes would extend south via Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia, with a ...