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Amtrak's Other High speed trains

Posted by Ham549

on Sun, Apr 24 2005 1:16 PM

What ever happend to Amtrak's other high speed trains like the Swedish X2000
or the German ICE they were testing?

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Posted by cnw4001

on Sun, Apr 24 2005 3:21 PM

Those were not Amtrak's equipment, they just had them here for evaluation and sent them back when the decision was taken to reinvent the wheel and design their own high speed train.

If you can get to the New York Times web site they have an excellent history of the Acela story in today's paper.

Dale

Posted by Ham549

on Sat, May 7 2005 8:40 AM

Amtrak had old equment that could go 150 m.p.h. like the Budd 12,000V A.C. 25Hz Electric Multiple Unit why not use thoes?

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