Acela Express races Amtrak Metroliner May 1 2001

Amtrak Metroliner 102 with AEM-7 races Acela Express 2180 at Croydon Station

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• Amtrak
• Acela
• Express
• Metroliner
• race
• Croydon
• national train day

[HUNNGreen]

Congratulations for this video! You caught this moment well!:)

[oaksmodelrr]

@HUNNGreen, BTW this platform was closed over the weekend, replaced by new high and low level platforms just to the north of the old one (behind the camera). Search PHILLYNRHS CROYDON for still pictures.

[kjrehberg]

These American trains are running on 100-year-old mainlines shared with much slower trains. Our requirements are not the same as those dedicated European, Chinese, and Japanese high-speed rail lines.

[DeltaPhi79]

@Captain42x Probably because the Acela is an express train and goes 25 MPH faster.

[UraeusAnkhAmon]

@JetMechMA Well, technically, it was built 75% in Canada and 25% in France. So the majority is built in America.

[JetMechMA]

@UraeusAnkhAmon I didn't know they were assembled in the US and Canada. That's a compromise I can live with.

[UraeusAnkhAmon]

@JetMechMA It is built under license in America.

[JetMechMA]

@UraeusAnkhAmon Look, Acela is a magnificent piece of engineering. At the very LEAST, it should be built under license in America.

[JetMechMA]

@UraeusAnkhAmon Your entire premise is bull shit. The Acela only runs in a limited corridor. American workers could build them for other American venues and then build the next generation train-set....and or throw in being a repair and overhaul shop for all of them too. Look buddy, America had a fully internal economy before traitors DESTROYED it. We know God damned well how to DESIGN, BUILD, and OPERATE trains in America.

[UraeusAnkhAmon]

@JetMechMA What part of it is "BULL SHIT"?

[JetMechMA]

@UraeusAnkhAmon BULL SHIT. I'm getting tired of you. I don't give a DAMN about your anti-American attitude. You BORE me, do you here me? BORE me. Go fuck off. I'll never support foreign products causing job loss in America. You're wasting your breath.

[UraeusAnkhAmon]

@JetMechMA When the workers stopped building the Acela, they began building other trains like NJ Transit trains and German double deckers. What I'm saying is that building a set of trains in the US and only that set is not really possible, because then you don't need the workers anymore and then you have to dump them, like Bombardier did in England, the workers could only work on building trains and when the company didn't want them anymore they couldn't really go anywhere else

[JetMechMA]

@UraeusAnkhAmon Just dig a hole and kill them, right? Is that what you want me to say? WHAT DID THEY DO WITH THE FRENCH WORKERS WHEN THEY GOT DONE BUILDING THE TRAINS!!!!!!!!!!!!! How dishonest can you get? That's a totally dishonest argument. "They can't build the trains in America because once the trains are built they would have to layoff the workers." ......and what? What do you imagine from that? That being laid off would be.....what?....too traumatic for the workers? What are you saying?

[UraeusAnkhAmon]

@JetMechMA But the problem is when building those trains is done, what do you do with them (workers)?