The NextGen Acela trains, as Amtrak calls them, are faster and lighter than the current fleet. They're scheduled to start revenue service along the Northeast Corridor on Thursday.
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Too bad they don’t have dedicated rails which they really need to be able to reach their full potential.
aug 29, 2025, 2:41 am • 15 1 • view
Sorry but, this angle on the cars that just ends at the locomotive is going to ruin them for me forever 🤣
aug 29, 2025, 4:22 am • 0 0 • view
Thanks Biden for the Infrastructure Money!!
aug 29, 2025, 11:24 am • 0 0 • view
All prepped up to carry domestic terrorists throughout the Eastern seaboard
aug 29, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
Thanks Biden
aug 29, 2025, 6:12 am • 2 0 • view
Thank you, Joe Biden
aug 29, 2025, 4:09 am • 2 0 • view
Update: Trump cancelled them.
aug 29, 2025, 3:04 am • 0 0 • view
Biden would be so pleased
aug 29, 2025, 2:35 am • 6 0 • view
I hope they’ve arranged for President Biden to be the first passenger. What am I thinking? Corporations are bowing to trump if they want to stay in business. Guess that would keep them from publicly thanking Biden.
aug 29, 2025, 1:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks Joe!!
aug 29, 2025, 3:21 am • 2 0 • view
"Revenue service" Let's read that carefully, shall we?
aug 29, 2025, 3:25 am • 0 0 • view
We're kind of in the middle of having our democracy being trashed by the people you're writing about, thanks.
aug 29, 2025, 2:39 am • 0 0 • view
When will they be available in District 12?
aug 29, 2025, 2:45 am • 1 0 • view
It’s actually fast enough to qualify as fast train (according to 20 years old standards). Let’s hope it is a start of real change. Trump is not going to rule forever.
aug 29, 2025, 8:04 am • 0 0 • view
Eh. The Trump administration will probably delay them or shut them down completely, because they might be something good that came out of a previous administration
aug 29, 2025, 2:37 am • 0 0 • view
Funded in 2016 under Obama. Sean Duffy acting like Trump is responsible for this project.
aug 29, 2025, 2:38 am • 15 2 • view
At last at long long last we have high speed rail. Now build them everywhere and fast
aug 31, 2025, 4:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Nice try! How about some Shinkansen trains? It’s 2025! Or that big oil muzzled you too?
aug 29, 2025, 2:35 am • 0 0 • view
Every other industrialized nation in the world has a better rail system than the US.
aug 29, 2025, 2:39 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you Democrats officials!
aug 29, 2025, 5:11 am • 3 0 • view
They're just gonna get decommissioned for trump's railroad deal to switch to trains that burn "clean coal"
aug 29, 2025, 10:51 am • 0 0 • view
Great infrastructure result! Question is: Will 🍊 et al find a way to trash it?
aug 29, 2025, 2:50 am • 0 0 • view
@juanjo-ld.bsky.social FYI
aug 29, 2025, 3:05 am • 0 0 • view
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social @chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social Pity you didn’t get the opportunity to ride this new train. ✌🏼❤️
aug 29, 2025, 3:05 am • 0 0 • view
@joemygod.bsky.social FYI
aug 29, 2025, 2:59 am • 0 0 • view
If porn has taught me anything, this train design is not common in Europe.
aug 29, 2025, 2:57 am • 0 0 • view
Haaaaaaa! It’s good to be culturally aware!
aug 29, 2025, 3:21 am • 1 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 2:40 am • 6 0 • view
The man loves ice cream (and also trains).
aug 29, 2025, 3:24 am • 2 0 • view
supposedly the chump admin is looking at replacing them with coal-fired alternatives
aug 29, 2025, 2:37 am • 1 0 • view
Don't stop at Union Station in DC.
aug 29, 2025, 2:55 am • 0 0 • view
Didn’t realize they go 10 mph faster than the older ones.
aug 29, 2025, 5:15 am • 0 0 • view
Perhaps some can soon be added to the Pacific Coast Amtrak routes. Or don't Easterners consider those of us on the West Coast worthy enough?
aug 29, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
The northeast corridor (and east coast in general) effort long precedes Duffy. This ball has been in motion for over a decade and, at least where I live, got a boost from the infrastructure legislation under Biden. I believe efforts have been made to claw back funds that would be used to 1/2
aug 29, 2025, 3:19 am • 2 0 • view
build a modern bridge over the Potomac River that would complete the express connection btw DC and Virginia, and thereby link the northeast corridor all the way to FL. I believe it'll be dedicated track, unimpeded by freight trains (currently a problem). Expect typical speeds well shy of 160 mph.2/2
aug 29, 2025, 3:19 am • 1 0 • view
As someone who hopped freight trains as a homeless traveler I prophesize disaster. The tracks aren't designed for more speed (Scamtrack uses regular freight tracks) and plenty of people already get hit by regular freight. You already don't realize a Scamtrack is coming sometimes, this'll be worse.
aug 29, 2025, 2:38 am • 0 0 • view
People don't get it, the entire infrastructure has to be changed for bullet trains, you can't just plop that shit down on the freight tracks, and there needs to be special designs to make dedicated tracks that avoids calamity with cars and pedestrians. The US is not built like China and Japan.
aug 29, 2025, 2:40 am • 0 0 • view
Not a Shinkansen bro. It goes 10 mph faster that the previous. Mostly amenities and better cars.
aug 29, 2025, 5:41 am • 0 0 • view
Thanks, Joe Biden.
aug 29, 2025, 2:36 am • 7 0 • view
Not as fast as the ones in China
aug 30, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view