Americans don’t understand high-speed trains—where they work and where they don’t. And why. And no wonder! A very small percentage of Americans haveever seen a high-speed train, much less traveled on one. Amtrak’s Acela trains operating in the Washington-New York-Boston corridor average 80-plus miles-per-hour and top out at about 150 along a rather short…
Last Sunday, I traveled from New York City to Washington, DC, on a conventional Amtrak train (Northeast Regional #153) which covered the 225-mile route in 3 hours and 25 minutes, arriving on time. It was a comfortable, uneventful ride. Today, I reversed direction , taking Amtrak’s sorta-high-speed train, the Acela #2158, from Washington through…
The annual April meeting of the National Association of Railroad Passengers has concluded and more that 120 members are now heading for homes all across the country.The meeting was held at the Sheraton in Silver Spring, Maryland, and everything was fine although NARP members immediately noticed that the hotel’s restaurant is called “Mica” . ….
I don’t know if there’s ever been an actual scientific survey, but I’m quite sure that most people riding across the country on an Amtrak train will say what they enjoy most is looking at the scenery. It’s certainly out there in abundance and that’s certainly how I feel. I’ll never get tired of the…