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I would consider a train traveling 150 mph in my book is high speed. The Europeans trains can go faster than 186 mph, it is just that they hold that speed because going faster costs more, in fuel efficiency and track maintanence. There comes a point of no returns... For Amtrak south of New York City today that point is reached at 125-130 mph. To go faster would mean an upgrade of track and electric lines. The Acela trainsets were designed to go 150 mph, its the track that slows them down. What slows Amtrak down in Connecticut is the old bridges, and old commuter tracks. Amtrak wishes to build new bridges, and upgrade the tracks. But this is a problem for the rest of the United States. Amtrak's seems to only want to spend money on the northeast corridor. The reality is that they won't get those funds until they spend some elsewhere: Florida, Texas, California, and Illinois, for starters. Everyone wants high speed rail, Amtrak has only proposed such only in the northeast. Amtrak today does not have the vision. That is precisely the problem. The sooner Amtrak propses high speed rail for all parts of the country, in a specific plan with specific dates, it won't get the funds to fix the northeast corridor....
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