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LOL
When you’re the only game in town, you get to tell whatever lies you want.

Bottom line, nobody wants the passenger service at these rates - they’d go under in short order.

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Enough business people take the Acela to make it worthwhile to run, even though DC told pretty much the same lies as in the past (to wit, “up to 150 mph”, which can mean any speed up to 150 miles per hour). Back in March 1969, this is what they said about the Budd Metroliner trains:

The Metroliner cars are built to reach 160 miles per hour, but initially the speed is being kept to 110.

Yup, and they stayed at 110 mph, even getting slowed down to 90 mph when track maintenance deferral caught up. This “Northeast Corridor improvement” line seems to be repeated in cycles.