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by ghc 321 days ago
The new trains can go to 160mph, which is slightly faster than the old ones. But...Acela's speed is really limited by the safety of the tracks not the train sets. I remember when they were testing 155mph service in 2010, but they could only do it on tiny sections of the track. Sadly it only really gets faster once they fix the infrastructure like bridges.