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Actually you would be incorrect in this thinking as well. I think we will see some form of a double deck version of the Acela in the future since there is some serious talk within Amtrak(of course this could be all that it is) and also the ROW can and does support the double deckers, like NJT as yo...

WADR, there is no "current Metroliner service". That ended almost three years ago, IINM. There is only Acela Express and Northeast Direct, along with the LD trains that operate on the NEC. Also, Amfleet I cars are not "trainsets". They are individual trailer cars. Amfleet IIs are...

There is no need whatsoever for any high platforms at CHI. Nor is there any need for mini-highs. If there were to be high speed trains running from the New York City area to Chicago, let's say of the Acela type of construction, route them into Randolph Street Station. Already high platforms there, a...

Level boarding is not required by the ADA, IINM. If it were, then Metra's gallery cars would have been gone ages ago. (Metra currently operates gallery cars with wheelchair lifts on their diesel lines. Wheelchair lifts, by all reports, are getting more reliable as well.) Also, there have been many r...

Just a question for the board. Do you guys think Amtrak should purchase all new trainsets for future operations along the NEC or just improve the Acela Express? Would it be worth the gamble of creating a new train from scratch given all the FRA requierments for tierII trains. I understand there are...

The Empire Corridor Turboliners were also "already bought", remember.

Depends on what you mean by "make sense" and what the real gulf between top test speed and top operating speed could be. Remember how high the TGV's test speed was (357 mph) compared to the daily operating speeds.

Hmm. Pretty good analysis, but you might want to compare the Shinkansen, since, in a technical sense, the DesertXpress is going to be more like it in terms of using its own right of way. The TGV runs on traditional rails for a certain portion of its journey, and the top speed on those is about 137 m...

Talgos can't be used on the route now. NJ Transit has built a few high platforms on the former all-low E-L territory (their "Hoboken Divison"). If a service like this were to start up, it can't skip stations like Newark (Broad Street) or Dover in New Jersey, assuming the Lackawanna route, ...

Turbotrains are also huge wasters of energy. The whole concept is dead. Cut them up IINM, all the UAC Turbotrains are already cut up. I don't remember any of them being saved. Pity, too, because their ability to hit 170 mph would make the run faster and of course more economical (no stops). AAMOF, ...

Uh oh. That look like spambot all right.

Hey, waitasec. 190 miles in 1 hour 20 minutes is an average speed of 142 miles per hour. If your top speed is going to be 150 mph, you're going to have to have acceleration like a bat out of Hades. :-D Even Shinkansen non-stop expresses need to run at 186 mph to get an average speed of around 142 mp...

At his posting, he reiterated that it has clearly been stated here there is no existing rail route remotely competitive with 'drive time' over NY 17 (auto or bus). Further, even if there were a rail route over which competitive timings could be attained, what is there in Binghamton to warrant new r...

Wow, why are you so angry? It's like you want to do anything you can to stop having a train going to Binghamton NY. What do you mean by "justification"? Does a city have to have at least a million people (like Buffalo) before you can have a train? Binghamton NY has almost as many people as...

I thought this thread meant that some kind of train was going to compete with AMTK on the old B&O