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Wow, superb high speed train collection. I guess this would be similar to our eurostar trains except they don't go as fast as yours. I must admit, I didn't realise that such trains existed in USA so will have to do research into them. Superb. Also can you tell me what the backing track is to this video - thanks

Thank you for this site. I was stationed in Aberdeen, MD in 1967. It was so fun to hop a train to get to New York City, Baltimore or DC. That was then. Now I live in Iowa.  Here's hoping that we'll get rail transportation improvements soon!. Thank you, again!

Great video and great music.

Thank you!

WELL I don't know verry god the railway sistem in USA but its one great diference between EURAIL and US RAILWAY. In European Union the rail transport are considerate one ecologic transport in contradiction with auto transport. Are builted one interoperabilitty line between France- UK - HOLLAND - Germany - Austria- Hungary- Romania- SWITZERLAND and now Spain ( SNCF - SCOTRAIL - DB - SBB- OBB - MAV - RENFE - SNCFR )

excellent video

I don't really CARE ABOUT YOUR OPINION... I'ts not my fault that you live in a sorry assed state such as Alabama .... Try some RESEARCH before spouting off some infantile opinion derived from an alcohol induced stupor about mass transit... Oh BTW did you know that the USA HAD the most extensive ELECTRIC TROLLY System on the planet but there was this CEO of GM in the 1930 that was able to influence congress and the president to rid the USA of public transportation infrastructre

I don't have the space here on youtube to explain all the details. But the only profitable part of the the NEC is the real estate. The trains have low ticket yield and high fixed costs. In the NEC Amtrak owns and maintains the 4 track lines.Outside the corridor, they rent the railroads.The NEC is a higher speed operation,which is higher costs.On top of a area which is already high in costs, everything costs more in the NEC houseing, food, taxes etc. So it costs more to run a railroad there too.

For years Amtrak put out what people of the Northeast wanted to hear.That the NEC was profitable.But the last few presidents of Amtrak from Dave Gunn on admitted the corridor was a money pit.Without allocated costs of the corridor. The rest of the system might be profitable. But the highway and airline lobby seem to be dead set against trains outside the NEC.There have been articles in Trains magazine and others about this over the years.I'm sure you can find this on your computer search engine.

If you check out the annual reports of the old railroads you'll see where the loses were, not on the mail carrying (at that time) long distance trains. But short distance corridor and commuter services. Where equipment and crews sit around all day and night between rush hours.Soon Amtrak will be buying new corridor cars, and soon wants to upgrade the Jersey raceway from 135 to 150. That will be big money. Yes, it should be done. But we need a national system. So we ALL benefit from these costs.