I owe DU an apology...

[one_voice]

I posted this thread earlier...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2262443

The mistake was not intentional...I honestly didn't know we had one of these.

[MedleyMisty]

1. Your point still stands

And we could use more than one.

[teddy51]

2. The one that the Japanese have, looks the best IMO. n/t

[one_voice]

4. yeah I have to agree...

it definitely looks like something from the future.

[Lint Head]

3. Our train system and rail in general needs major updating.

[RKP5637]

6. Traveling in France, Germany and UK made our system look like a stagecoach. n/t

[Lint Head]

11. Yep. I loved riding the rails in Germany

[hughee99]

5. I've traveled on it before.

A fast train, but unfortunately seems to be on many of the same rails as the slow ones which really cancels some of the advantages.

[mother earth]

7. still holds true...

[whathehell]

8. Not as much, though, huh?

:P

[mother earth]

10. one picture doesn't change much, we need nationwide upgrades.

[whathehell]

21. I agree that we need nationwide upgrades. n/t

[kestrel91316]

9. "We" don't have one of those. The NYC-DC corridor has one of those.

The rest of us get The Little Engines That Could (Sort Of).

[dembotoz]

22. bringing up that one train is like saying the dolphins won one football game

they must be a really good team.

Your point stands and remains correct.

for all our patriotic hyperventalating. The us is falling way behind the rest of the world

[jberryhill]

12. I ride the Acela regularly

I'm in the Philly area and take it to NY and DC pretty often.

It does not favorably compare to other high speed rail systems.

Upthread someone mentioned it runs on the same tracks as the regular trains.

True... but... they did have to put in all welded rail and banked a few curves. But to accommodate for all of the non-banked curves, the body of the Acela swivels, which improves the ride dynamics a bit, but still limits speed.

The major problem is that it has to run between the raindrops of the normal Northeast corridor schedule.

Oh, and don't bother with "First Class". It's the same as the rest of the train but they give you a sandwich, a soda, and a bag of chips.

It's a nice ride, but not really worth the premium on a few minutes time saved to DC or NY.

WiFi is nice, but it tends to be a little slow, given that everyone onboard is sucking down Netflix.

[midnight]

13. Thanks for the update.... Where are these running?

[one_voice]

14. New York and DC...

that's what folks are saying up thread--those that have ridden them. I'm in Delaware, as far as I know we still have the ones Biden rode to DC on every day. :-)

[hootinholler]

18. DC - Boston

Here's the route info.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

15. That's a wannabe high-speed rail. Your original point still stands.

Now apologize for the apology. :P

[one_voice]

16. LOL...

I'm a pretty sorry person today. :D

[Tsiyu]

23. Can't you do anything right!?! ; -)

Don't republicants say "no" to high speed rail everytime Obama brings it up?

What's the status on getting some here?

And thanks for the train threads, you done good. :thumbsup:

[XanaDUer]

17. It's still a great graphic!nt

[hootinholler]

19. To be fair, it's one route

We need a transcontinental route, but piecemeal would get there eventually.

I would love to see a solar route like Atlanta - NO - Houston - Vegas - LA

[LynneSin]

20. We have one sorta but we could use more

So your point was very pointiful :D