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The 5 higher-speed rail projects taking shape in the U.S (www.washingtonpost.com)
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  1. Acela's faster trains

  2. Brightline West

  3. California High Speed Rail

  4. Texas

  5. Cascadia

Secret #6. Ohio 3 C's, shadowdropping later this year

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[–] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

cocoa to orlando would be if it actually got built and opened at 125mph. Barely anyhow. 79mph top speed with good branding? Not a chance in hell. Makes me mad that some flashy "high speed" branding and a healthy dose of ideology was all it took to get people slobbering over a passenger train in the US

acela is high speed but by god does it need to run on alignments that don't slow it down so much. it's running at like intercity 125 speeds (not top speeds but almost comparable average speeds over a route), aka shit the UK did in the 70s. nowadays their east coast main line runs at over 110 mph average and we're still at 70)