The Acela roars through Middle River MD.

Amtrak has use of the old Pennsy's NE Corridor during the daytime hours. Here an Acela passes the MARC station in Middle River.

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[Dockshund]

The last photo I ever got of a GG1 was at that same spot.

[Hendo56]

@Dockshund I miss those GG 1s! Wish I had taken more pictures of them. They were awesome. 

[soshmed1]

The blobs painted on the Acela are an EMBARASSMENT !!

[Hendo56]

@soshmed1 I'm not a big fan of the paint scheme, either.

[ffairlane57]

The sad thing is that a lot of the track on the northeast corridor will never let the Acela do what it's meant for...sor of like a Ferarri in a city traffic jam.

[CDCoasterdude]

The cool thing about those trains is they are really fast and really quiet

[MrEiriku]

@DeTellers your penis fake bitch

[AmersfoortTristan]

@dionysos46 For short: the entire project is a costly farce.

[AmersfoortTristan]

@dionysos46 I reankly haven't got the faintest clue why they just didn't take the perfectly available Thalys (I have been in the thing and I loved it) and why they had to bother with privatising it in order to comform with "European standards" while simply building the line and letting the SNCF go all the way to Amsterdam would have been sufficient. And then we could have started with a HSL Oost as well and have the ICE go to Amsterdam now. (it goes there now but now in high-speed).

[AmersfoortTristan]

@dionysos46 Another nice costly event. The Belgians showed little signs of collaboration. Our government was inconsqeuent and downright bad in it's planning and the Italian company that is responsible for the train kept on stalling -- why I don't know but they were a disaster. I still think we should have gone with the Germans as they at least have the train, . Although we now have the train (Fyra) but I really haven't got a clue what they are up to.

[dionysos46]

@AmersfoortTristan : Ah, OK, in fact it's the costly HSL Zuid, designed with ETCS European System "ERTMS level 2", except the fact... there's actually no high speed train compatible for opening the route!

Isn't it? 8-O

[AmersfoortTristan]

@dionysos46 Betuweroute isn't for high speed rail. But it was a disaster. Mired by bad government and private policies.

[dionysos46]

@AmersfoortTristan : "Betuweroute" Isn't it?

[MarioKartWii64]

5 people were cars.

[NycGuy2011]

Its a shame that the NE corridor and Acela trains are the only ones that turn a profit for Amtrak. Everything else they touch is just a black hole for money.