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Philadelphia to New York on the Acela

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Posted by oltmannd on Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:53 AM

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AG: Its not so much a matter of upgrading the Cat from wilmington to DC that is important is of easing some curves and adding one or two tracks. The amount of commuting over that line was never this much except WWII and the ancilary consequence of adding the two tracks would be new CAT.

Agree, but it's not just the commuting.  The intercity corridor traffic is much higher than PRR days.  Metro DC is huge compared to 40-50 years ago.

-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/

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