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Posted by Olog-hai on Thu Apr 26 02:51:06 2012, in response to Re: High Speed Rail vs Really Fast Regional Rail, posted by Wado MP73 on Wed Apr 25 21:44:51 2012. IIRC, the 1990 Metroliner stopped at New Carrolton one way, Metropark the other way and the 1969 Metroliner stopped at PhillyThe New Carrollton stop was initiated in 1987, but may have been dropped by 1990. The 1969 Metroliner skipped Philadelphia IIRC; certainly the 1970 nonstop did westbound (although there was a stop eastbound at Baltimore in the AM). It was the nonstop Acela Express that stopped at Philly (that one failed too). According to NARP, the AE actually did the trip in 2:28. The NECIP extended Metroliner schedules to 3:20 back in 1978, and then to 3:30 in 1979, getting bloated all the way to 3:45 in 1980. There was once Metroliner service between Washington and Downingtown PA. If it's hard to sell non-stops they're not scheduling them right Not really; the nonstops aren't fast enough, and there isn't enough of a market. It would still be possible to get extant "express" trains up to close to triple-digit average speeds, but the only things holding that back are infrastructure deficiencies and the restrictions on tilting that the Acela Express trainsets currently have even on Amtrak territory (the FRA imposed those restrictions—seven inches of cant deficiency, when the AE was supposed to have been designed to operate at nine inches . . . interestingly enough, the X2000 was reportedly tested at 11 inches on the NEC although it ran with 9 inches during revenue tests). |
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