The Amtrak Acela Express hits 150 mph

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Uploaded by on Jun 9, 2010

The United States might not have much, but we do have our own flavor of high-speed rail: Amtrak's Acela Express. I set out to see just how fast the Acela could go, and clocked it at 150 mph outside Providence, RI. The friendly conductor even let me into the control room to push the mysterious Button 8!

This video was recorded on a Kodak Zi8 camera at 720p/30 fps. I used MotionX GPSLite on an iPhone 3GS to verify the speed.

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  • That would be either Mansfield, Ma or Kingston RI. BTW If you've ever been on Amtrak before you'd know that it tops out at 150. =) Great vid though.

  • @TrainGuy247 I knew it was supposed to go 150, but it was fun verifying that it did. Very smooth and quiet at that speed! And thanks for the kind words!

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  • Americans should be proud of the Acela and the achievements of Amtrak for pulling off 150 mph trains given such powerful anti-rail lobbys in the US-Aviation/tire/oil.auto companies.

  • @TrainGuy247

    I too would like to ride the Acela some day. Now if the Florida HRS does get built (most likely it will since it will be a huge jobs creator) it will only cost 15-30 bucks to ride and the first phase of the route is only 84 miles, but will travel at about 170mph from Orlando to Tampa. The funny thing about its that when it does get built the Florida HRS will become America's fastest train. Possible the fastest train in American history although I have to look into it more.

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  • hey, glad you did that, might shut up a few people now,,lol great video too

  • Whats this app called?

  • @bognapalm I know 

  • @Jacobsdad1234 It's an expression ;) Relax.

  • gas? what gas? is sum ones shew on fire if not you crazy that's an electric train its rare to find a gas train

  • what app is that ?

  • wow that is sooo freakin kool.

  • @KMSalex 300 bucks

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