[Morgana]

These are being tested right now, should be in use in 2021.

[Gay State Conservative]

There's a good chance I'll be visiting Japan this summer.One thing I plan to do is ride the bullet train.

[Publius]

When I travel back to Philly to visit relatives, my method of travel in the Northeast Corridor to visit cousins and friends always finds me on Amtrak's Acela trains. It's the civilized method of traveling Philly to New York and Philly to DC.

You can drink a beer at your seat and not even see the ripples in the glass.

[Deaf Smith]

Are these new fangled High Speed Trains immune/exempt to current track speed limits?

[Olog-hai]

What lovely machines. Named “Avelia” after a species of protozoan single-celled organism.

Like their predecessors (which will be quickly retired after just two decades), their entrance doors are for high platforms only, so if you have to stop at a station with low platforms (e.g. Washington Union Station’s lower level), have fun with that 40-inch jump. Also, the aforementioned design characteristic excludes it from operation elsewhere in the country.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Pretty cool train movie in case you hadn’t seen it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCHBEN97GBs

[Fiji Hill]

I took a round trip from Los Angeles to Ann Arbor, Mich. on Amtrak in 1980. The train was 14 hours late getting there and 12 hours late returning. I swore at the time that I would never ride Amtrak again—and I never have.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

Wow! What a video! I blinked. And I blinked again. And again, and again, and again, and I DIDN’T miss it.

It’s got a revolutionary new design so that if you dropped it from the Space Shuttle it could reach speeds of a gazillon miles an hour! Of course it will go a little slower through places like Groton, Connecticut.

[higgmeister]

The branding team based the name "Acela" on the ideas of acceleration and excellence.[40][41]

Oh, good grief!

[Fresh Wind]

The last time I took the train into NYC was miserable (non-Amtrak NJ Transit).

The non-Amtrak tracks were in terrible condition, the train was dirty, and the moronic conductor took my ticket, walked away, then came back and accused me of not having a ticket.

I had to show her the other half of my round-trip ticket to get her to shut up.