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That was essentially political. Amtrak had to maintain it's "glide path to efficiency" <snicker> and so they wanted to get the Acela on line right away, perceiving it to be a cash cow, <snicker again!> so they went ahead and installed the train w/o making improvements in track structure. What is really nasty is that some of those tunnels date from the Civil War! <br /> <br />The slow unelectrified locals and frieghts, I am told, run mostly at night, and don't gum up anything. But I'm a continent away so I might be wrong on that.
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