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Amtrak's brand-new high-speed Acela trains finally set to enter service next spring
After more than a decade of planning and years of tests, Amtrak's high-speed, next-generation Acela ... report flagged defects on a slew of new Acela train sets, warning the problems threatened ...
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Onlookers marvel as high-speed train slices through snow at impressive speeds: ‘The future is bright’
A video of a high-speed Acela train whizzing past a train platform at a reported 150 miles per hour awed users on X, formerly known as Twitter. X user Jeremy (@jeremyzorek) took the video at the ...
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Brightline Raising $2.5 Billion Of Private Funds For Vegas-To-L.A. Bullet Train
Brightline West, billionaire investor Wes Eden’s 218-mile rail project to connect Las Vegas to suburban Los Angeles with electric bullet trains, is raising $2.5 billion from private investors ...
Walters: Trump targets California’s bullet train. It may deserve a mercy killing
Envisioned as a statewide system decades ago, the multibillion-dollar project has trouble linking Merced and Bakersfield.
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Passenger clings to outside of speeding bullet train for 20 miles, police say: ‘Life-threatening nonsense’
A daredevil passenger is lucky to be alive after clinging to a high-speed train for miles as it rocketed along at over 170 miles per hour. The 40-year-old Hungarian commuter had been riding on the ...
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Amtrak’s faster, higher-tech Acela trains are delayed again
The 28 Avelia Liberty high-speed trains ... which entered service when Acela launched in 2000. The first two train sets had been expected to enter Acela, Amtrak’s premier service, in spring ...