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Why is 112 KPH called "high speed" there, it's the speed of most of our suburban trains here
Why is 112 KPH called "high speed" there, it's the speed of most of our suburban trains here
It's called "higher-speed" not "high speed" for trains like that. It's actually kind of funny because Brightline is barely "higher speed". The Amtrak trains in Michigan go faster than Brightline does (110 MPH between Kalamazoo and Porter, goal is between Dearborn and Porter).
Yup. What's interesting on this vein is Pan Am Railways wanted to limit Amtrak's top speed on the Downeaster route to 50 mph because they didn't want to do the maintenance to bring the tracks up to standard 79mph standards for Amtrak's long distance run. Amtrak won the case if I remember.
Don't forget that the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority provides the funding for the Downeaster. Amtrak probably would be doing 50 mph if it wasn't for them.