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To: Bill who wrote (572919)	6/21/2010 5:29:38 PM
From: jlallen	3 Recommendations Respond to of 1579241

lol What a friccan dumbass ted is.

To: Bill who wrote (572919)	6/21/2010 6:58:30 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579241

<< And just for the record......Boston to NYC Acela is not hi speed rail. >> "Acela Express (often simply Acela) is Amtrak's high-speed rail service along the Northeast Corridor (NEC) in the Northeast United States between Washington, D.C., and Boston via Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York." Americans call it high speed but its anything but. We have the Acela locomotive out here as well. Its build by Bombardier I think esp for the US market where the tracks are in bad condition. Its built in such a way that allows it to take curves at higher speeds than a regular locomotive. Having said that, Amtrak's average speed on the NY-WA Acela run is around 80 mph. Hi speed rail starts at 125 mph. The Acela locomotives are capable of higher speeds but Amtrak doesn't allow those speeds for safety reasons. Only Portugal, Austria, Finland and Norway......all mountainous countries........have slower train speeds than the US: en.wikipedia.org