Rare~ 1993.19.01 - X2000 Demonstration on NEC / BOS-NHV

Rare inside and outside footage of the test/demo Swedish X2000 prior to the Amtrak Acela design. by Jack McCabe © 2000. Alstrom and Amtrak provided the tilt demonstration provided at the New Haven Amtrak Station. NB: Tilting technology was the critical factor in allowing for high 150 mph speeds later employed by the Amtrak Acela design.
This X2000 set is a self propelled diesel powered version. The corridor from Boston to New Haven was not electrified until 1988. Another electric powered version was testing at the other end of the NEC.


Also in used in revenue service for Amtrak:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6EjkikFGDY
by John P Almeida on youtube © 2000
Video by Jack McCabe © 1993

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[Mmchips1]

The x2000s are crap at wintertime here in sweden...

[RIRRmuseum]

@Mmchips1

Sorry to hear that opinion.

One of the positive aspects that was highly impressive and incorporated in the design of the Amtrak Acela's units was the tilting technology of the X2000. The Acela's are still considered prototype even though they have been running successfully for a decade now here in the US. They are a big hit with the traveling public and especially now that wifi is also a feature on them as some of the Regionals as well.

[howardkevinm]

Amtrak is pitiful. even at 135mph it STILL manages to take Amtrak 6hrs to handle the 460 miles between Boston and Union Station. only real fast time is between Wilmington and Baltimore where it does 68 miles in under 50 minutes. everything else is like 30mph turtle.

[RIRRmuseum]

@howardkevinm

Railroads cost money, lots of money! But are still cheaper than building miles of more freeway, unfortunately there are factions in this country that do not want to support passenger rail and do their best to starve Amtrak, so what you get is what you got dude.

[johangardin89]

@Mmchips1 They're not crap, it's our government cutting the funds to the railway network making everything break down

[RIRRmuseum]

@howardkevinm

You're factoids may be correct but are a moot point. The amount of support France and Germany provide to rail passenger service is so exponentially greater than what we give Amtrak that it is amazing we even have high speed service at all.

[howardkevinm]

@theshugchannel 458.6 Miles Divided by 6.67 hours = 68.75 Miles per hour average speed. TGV Paris to London 280 miles Travel time 2:25 Average speed 124.4mph so ya even with Acela its 3 times slower than anything Europe has.

[theshugchannel]

@howardkevinm are you that stupid?

[RIRRmuseum]

Howard. Your comment indicates how little you understand about Amtrak's history. Blaming Amtrak is easy. However Amtrak can only accomplish what congress allows. And unlike other countries, ours has not put passenger service at high priority over the last half century. By the way, Amtrak Acela does 150mph at Kingston RI. I rode it during testing in 1997 from East Greenwich to Kingston at 167mph. If the entire corridor was designed to run at high speed the trip time could be much less.