Amtrak Acela Express - America's Fastest Train 

America's rail system gets a lot of flak, most of it deserved. But the Acela Express is actually fantastic for what it does. It's one of Amtrak's most popular services, runs at a great profit and passenger load numbers, and gives domestic airlines on the East coast a serious run for their money. It's a shame that the line hasn't been completely overhauled and upgraded, since the Northeast Corridor is perfectly suited for High Speed Rail operations: many cities with large populations within hours of each other.

1:28 F40PH: ugh these cars are so heavy. 1:46 Acela: BITCH GOML.

I'm the Conductor of the noon Acela from Boston. When we reach the straight track south of Sharon Hill and make to the maximum speed of 240km, it's still very intense, even after 15 years.

60% of the comments are people saying the train is slower than theirs 20% are compliments to the train 10% people trying to explain to Europeans why it's slow or why it doesn't need to travel at 300 km. 10% have nothing to do with the train at all...

That Acela is sure one hell of a Trainset Man! Its got style, class, beauty, speed, and what not! Can't even imagine anybody calling this Train bad! Greetings from India!

Why's everyone complaining that Amtrak are "only" doing 150mph? In the UK, our trains never usually go over 125mph, and even on our only high speed line are still limited to 140mph. I can think of many other countries around the world with far slower trains.

It's the closest thing to feeling like you're travelling by train in Europe, while still being in the U.S.

This horn at 4:30 is just absolutely beautiful 😍 I dunno if it's in an older video but I love it

Best Acela compilation....Greetings from India.

As a guy from india.. I am impressed by american acela express ... hats off

I love Acela Express! from Japan.

It's like the french TGV with the old good US train horn sound, great to see !

Hi from France to America ! Even if that train is not so fast than our TGV, i consider it as a fast train compared to previous american trains. Travels are now shorter than before and are less expensive than plane, and connect town center between them. In the future, your trains will be even faster than nowadays. USA go !

Excellent shots of Attleboro (150MPH), Hyde Park (120MPH), and Canton Junction (125MPH). =)

I'm from Switzerland and I really like how the American trains look like. Very impressive!

Amazing to think of all the physics involved in this. "Just a flange on a wheel" doesn't quite do it justice........all the forces and physical laws being funneled into a very futuristic conveyance. Nice.

We need more trains like the Acela. It’s the closest thing to high speed rail in the US.

Well I thought it got along at a pretty respectable pace. All things relative. I live in Australia, large area with many State Governments much like the U.S. Very difficult to get a national approach to a high speed rail network to cover such vast distances. European countries, Japan and the UK isles are much smaller areas and therefor much easier to achieve what we long to have. Still, we do well with what we have :) Cheers.

1:34 for a solid 5 seconds, i thought that was a MARC I dont know why the hell do people constantly complain about Acela. it makes no sense. the line it runs on has a lot of sharp turns, what the hell would you expect? The US has a lot of space between its cities, as such it is more efficient to use aircraft or a vehicle that does not require so much infrastructure. European nations are small, so planes would be out of the question. Same goes for many asian nations. Population density is high, and as a result, trains are most efficient. but in sparsely populated nations, like Canada or the US, trains arent as efficient. The reason we dont have high speed travel in other states is that the rail lines that exist out there are owned by private freight lines. High speed rail would not benefit them, so they wont upgrade the tracks. They do what they want witthe tracks, Amtrak just has to go with it. Take this into consideration next time you watch a video of US rail lines.

They badly need to expand Acela lines to nationwide services. Or at least between certain cities. Like I’d love to have a Midwest corridor. Milwaukee, Chicago, St.Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville, Indianapolis, Columbus, Cleveland, Detroit, and finally Pittsburgh with connecting lines through Pennsylvania and New York to the north east corridor. Definitely encourage more travel between cities on day trips or smaller trips.

1:46 a wild Acela appears!

89 dislikes - airline executives.

I have seen a few of the Acela High Speed trains in 2012 when I was train watching in Perryville, MD, it went at 150 MPH, when I rode on the Crescent from New Orleans,LA to Wilmington, DE on 9/19-20/2012 when I was traveling from Loser City Tucson,AZ to attend my 40 year High School class reunion, the Crescent went 130 MPH to 150 MPH between Baltimore & Wilmington,DE.

*_FINALLY_* , a video that just basks in the glory and power of the accomplishment that is Acela, and is not putting it down for not being as fast as Shinkansen/TGV/Eurostar/whatever, or for not having super amazing food/drink options (as if food and drink onboard a train be amazing is _everything_ 🙄) or for not having the completely latest state-of-the-art seating-just a few minutes of seeing this train, this American accomplishment, go through its daily paces! Great work, CoasterFan2105!

Can we have more of this? Even if its at 150 mph, still saves people time.

かっこいい...客車と機関車との間の段差が小さいから編成が整っていて素敵！！

That intro gave me goosebumps! Great video!

you see, when you are watching a train video, its not even half as powerful as the real thing, so when you are watching oe of these videos, just keep that in mind, and also bring to heart that these people spend about 30 minutes just to wait for about 3-5 seconds of pure amazement, and they wont get that for another while, and it takes at least a few days to get a good solid 5 minute video. So give respect for these people

US: high speed rail is too expensive Also US: spends $1.9T on a pointless war in the Middle East

I know that the Acela Express can reach “only” 240 km/h. But I really like it’s design, and don’t forget that it runs on normal railway. Greetings from Salerno.

I took my first ride on the Acela this week (Dec 2022) and it was awesome. Two hours from DC to NYC. Fantastic.

Those trains are fasted, when i were to USA aboard Acela Express, i traveled New York to Boston. ¡excellent!

lmfao damn. look closely at the guy in the distance on station platform at 2:41, airwave from the train passing blew his hat off.

I love the Acela express, I love Amtrak, I love american trains from Japan.

great footages !!!! your fast train look like our french TGV !!!! thanks for sharing !

You’ve outdone yourself with this one.

It's good to see that our American cousins have finally started to catch up with us Europeans (not forgetting Asia aswell) in rail travel! :D

Happy 50th birthday to Amtrak!

It would be nice if Amtrak expanded Acela all over the nation🚄

Wow, a USA rail project that actually followed through.

Great Content i have been subscribed for years he should already have 100m but he is close to 1M

0:12 This has to have been your most insane catch yet. I bet all the people onboard the coaster train were very happy to see a steam locomotive chuffing right past them. (Of course I’ve seen the actual clip and not the intro but it’s impressive)

great video, this train has a very nice look! maybe better than our high speed trains here in Italy.. I love it

The work of Alstom and Bombardier really paid off with the Acela. America’s Fastest.

If you traveled in Europe, you would be laughing at this.

I liked this video! Every time the Acela passes an MBTA, I know you camerad it from Massachusetts which is my state!

2:14 coming from a Shinkansen flyby, that is still impressive speed, I didn’t know we had trains that fast.

We need this in Canada. Now.

I used to live about 1/2 mile where the Acela shot by at around 110mph. It's impressive, for American standards. The distance from Providence RI to Boston MA is short enough to where it does not reach a top speed of 150mph.

I find the train is more pleasant to myself than flying as you miss seing so much scenery when you fly.

is nobody gonna talk about the horn at 4:32?

super cool my brother❤❤, greetings from Indonesia🚂🚂, always be healthy🙏🙏🥰🥰

0:12-0:20 mom and I really loved that part, watching the trains go by!

The fact that this train is shorter than more common European or Japanese models (TGV, ICE, Shinkansen, anyone?) doesn't make it look faster. But the Acela is very slow anyway. I hope that someday the United States will develeop better infrastructure than it has now. I am from the Netherlands myself, and I absolutely love trains. Seeing them arrive on their stations, depart with grace and rush through the countryside at their top speeds is truly amazing to watch. It just shows that trains simply do not belong in museums. They belong on the tracks, where they perform their duties. However, as we all know, the United States has a poorly maintained infrastructure when it comes to their tracks and trains. Amtrak owns only a very small portion of all the track it operates on, meaning the owners of the non-Amtrak rails will naturally lend the priorities to their freight trains. Whenever there is a freight train approaching, Amtrak train operators are told to park their trains in sidings, while the 2-kilometer long freight train passes by at the slowest possible speed. Normally, these non-Amtrak tracks are not powered by overhead electricity either, which means they are forced to utilize diesel engines for their passenger trains on those tracks, just like the freight companies that actually own the track. For this reason, high-speed rail travel across the US, even by diesel trains, is impossible on the track they do not own. The reason why the Acela is so slow on the Amtrak-owned track is because the track isn't upgraded. However, they are working on gradually upgrading the track they do own, which would eventually result in the trains being able to run at their top speeds. Avelia Liberty will have to wait, because upgrading the tracks is the first step to take. Without this crucial step, even the new Avelia Liberty would still only be chugging along at less than 125 miles per hour, just like the Acela Express. They could go faster on European tracks, but they don't, since the track is poorly maintained. How badly I wish the United States would be getting a good network of trains across the entire country... (Sorry if my English was bad) -Jack

Sweet shots Mike!!! I love Acela's! I fact I'm heading to the Northeast next week!

is no one gonna talk about that guy losing his hat on the left side of the screen? 2:40

I can’t wait for the Shinkansen line to be built from Dallas to Houston

thank you , am in Australia hope to get that side in the next 6 years...

Always happy when you come to the northeast.

I love this video from coasterfan2105 with metra Chicago commuter trains.

We need trains like this in Bangladesh 😢

It is amazing that they could run in more than 150mph in existing rail. Greeting from China.

Nice ,love from india

Fantastic job capturing the Acela Express train!

I don't want these trains replaced. They're still new.....

I love acela express!!❤❤especially steam trains❤❤,love from India🇮🇳❤.

Stunning high speed videos!

I love union pacific trains from fast desiel trains thank you!!

I went on the acela for my birthday

With my experiences on fast trains in the UK and France, at first I thought the US-xpress was not going that fast till 406 and 416, yep, that sucker definitely is hammering down in the 140 plus mphs. Mint captures.

2:57: Me when I'm late in the car.

CoasterFan2105 Love The Acela!! Awesome video!!!!

Can you come to Long Island to film the Long Island railroad,also, the New York and Atlantic railroad for freight

150mph is actually damn impressive for hundreds of year old lines travelling on some of the busiest corridors in the world with mixes of commuter, freight, and Acela, and without their own dedicated right of way. That being said Acela ordered new Alstom Aveila Liberty trains that starting in 2021 will lean into turns and are going to be able to go 220mph on these same old congested lines.

Nice Captures !!

Camera doesn't do it justice kneeling on the platform with daughter out of Mansfield MA when this bad boy comes rolling through. Almost blew me over never mind the sand blasting

1:10 When your playing outside and you see a bee

The whoosh sound as the train passes the camera is the best thing in the world

Impressive shots, Mike! Acela trainsets surely do look and sound amazing. If only the NEC could be improved and new high speed lines built so these monsters could show what they could really do!

Mike - Another fine video. I've seen other videos of the Acela with even with one or two produced by Amtrak. It wasn't until I saw this one of yours that I really noticed Acela's unique sound as it sprints by. Thanks for posting it. Art

Thank goodness for those yellow lines, or people wouldn't have anything to stand behind for protection! :-}

Awesome I love Acela Amtrak 😎😄👍

What a beautiful Acela is!

Love the night time shots! These trains remind me a little of the BR class 91 and Mk4 sets, the body profile is quite similar!

*Me casually putting it on X2 speed*

Hey dude lots of love to American rail fans from India.I am also a rail fan.I want to say that please be safe while the sexy beast 😍😘 on the track bcs of it's high speed it can pull u towards bcs a low pressure system is developed when the train at high speed running out of platform . And also there is a high risk while clicking a camera flash near high tension overhead wires .Bcs some times it can give a spark through the flash and can hit the photographer too. I'm not warning u but be safe bro we want some more vids from u 😎😎🤗😘🇮🇳🇮🇳🇺🇸🇺🇸

Say hello to the Empire-Builder’s bouncing, badass baby brother.

I really enjoy these postwar train videos..

3:48 sounds like a simplex true alert doing continuous..

I was planning on filming at North Elizabeth on the NEC today, which would've been the first time I'd ever seen an Acela in person. Unfortunately, my father and I didn't have time-if we'd gone, we'd have only been able to stay for about 20 minutes. Another day...

The Acela trains only have six passenger cars between two power cars.... why so short? One would expect 10 or 12 cars.

Good Job Amtrak! I have good feelings about your future with high speed trains!

Is that High Speed? Let me laugh Haha from France

1:07 that phrase never get old

The Acela is just fine! It gets the job done! We don't NEED crazy speeds like 200mph!

This a great compilation!

1:29以降=2階建ての在来列車をアセラが追い抜くシーンが貴重だ｡

Train actually looks good !

Look at 2:35 that Baby is Bookin!

Yes Leave The Amtrak Acela Express Alone I Love The Amtrak Acela Express And I Really Have A Serious Crush On You Amtrak Acela Express