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by anologwintermut 4688 days ago
High-speed rail trains hold way more than 20 people, so they weigh more. Plus in the US, high speed trains that run on "freight lines" (which include the Acela) have to be very heavy do to some idiotic crash worthiness requirments. https://www.ebbc.org/rail/fra.html