Amtrak's Next-Generation of High-Speed Rail 

easier said than done lol

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You're saying you want to cut people ?

are the trains live yet

Wtf lolz

Alstom is at fault. SNCF ordered them and is also having problems with Alstom.

Still until 2021 they've just started testing the darn thing.

if a pointless war comes its prob gonna be cancelled however i trust biden

you mean that one political virus?

Me too, I wanted to ask my parents to visit japan in early 2020 but covid came out of the blue and ruined it all, but now that people are being vaccinated against the virus, we are getteing closer to normal life

こういうのを見るととても行きたくなりますよね..

@@bluepine651 わかりみ…

if you want to travel to see the view, take slower train, want to travel for work etc, take fast train like the ones in Japan, china

Yup and we wont miss the days of orange bloatus, hello amtrack joe

Well it wouldn't be politicly correct if this train was seen on a fright line :)

It is going to run on the Northeast Corridor which is owned by Amtrak. It will replace the Acela.

Northwest Railfan yes, true fact that is.

well seeing that your talking about amtrack that's a very unlikely situation. lol.

I hope the U.S. has a high speed rail renaissance and yes, I hope the high speed trains run on their own rails and not on freight lines.

They never said is was undeveloped or totally new concept. In fact in the video and in the news reports they explain that it's being used in several countries with a proven track record. With that being said it is new for the US.

***** exactly

Really if you are going to bitch at least bitch at the laws lol its really not Amtrak fault!

Yeah passenger trains lol not any other trains

+howardkevinm we should really be getting Tesla's Hyperloop, except big oil and politicians are hindering development

15-hr delay due to repairs of tracks owned and operated by BNSF/CN/CP. Alternate offered, a cramped/non-accessible coach bus to Chicago. A crabby driver to boot, had no clue where to drop us off at Union Station. Dreading the trip home from Chicago.

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Don't need new tracks. Just need new railcars. They even have new locos.

@@Designer_TopGhaving new cars means nothing if they don’t have new tracks

@@Designer_TopGdefinitely. They also need the Hybrid K5LA horn because i saw a video of them testing the horn and it sounds bad. No offense… right?

*_*China has joined the server_** *_*Europe has left the server_** *_*Japan has left the server_**

@@pepehimovic3135 it still operates in China not Germany

@@user-qw2cd4xk5p what about japan's maglev and Europe's TGV POS

China: Hold my dumplings and my beer.

@@bruh-qq1sx Japans maglev still is not in use by the public after all these years. To bring them up here I think, will be no different from saying how a car in the factory is the world's most efficient vehicle. The TGV POS is not even as fast as the Shanghai Maglev.

PonyEnterprises II maybe after North Korea is annexed by South Korea and when the Middle East conflict comes to an end.

I going to replaced with a electric school bus :(

The US is far too large for a coast to coast HSR network. Connecting cities that are reasonably close is more realistic.

@@FFred-us9twyou do realize there is a whole interstate network right? Too large? How

@@omarguerra1838 I’m well aware of the Interstate system. But that’s not used for people in a rush. It’s almost 3,000 miles NYC to LA. A high speed rail line that went non stop at 300 MPH would still twice as long as a plane. And a perfectly straight line at that speed doesn’t exist anywhere in the world. It’s a fantasy.

@@FFred-us9tw no no I get you. But trains have never been around straight lines. What a train has that a plane doesn’t is its versatility. A whole network connecting all of America with HSR means many stations to middle of nowhere in between cities. Small towns etc etc. at insane speeds. Meaning better than car and for certain ovation even better than plane. Of course flying from one side of the country to the other is way better but people don’t make that trip every day. I mean the interstate goes from east to west and north to south. Think about it when have you ever used the whole stretch. You probably The point is that it exist and that at any point you can use it. Why spend 300 dollars to go from Omaha to LA in 2 hours plus airport times when with HSR you could pay 120 for what 4-5 hours? In car that takes 24 hours. Plus just like the interstate Instread of using it to go from district to district in 20 minutes. I can use HSR from neighbor city to neighbor city in 20 minutes whenever I am not doing big long roadtrips. I would argue US is THE perfect size for a super awesome HSR network

@Sasha Braus he’s actually supporting it, if it wasn’t for him it might’ve been cancelled

HAHAHA 🥲

I want this on the Capitol Corridor

@@Someonesaidthis Well, they got the money so it's coming. So jealous here in California. Ours is like 10 years away. I mean I hope it's not longer :))

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Lilian

Billy Lauwda yeah I love steam too but I hate how Amtrak canceled all steam excursions

99% America isnt bennifitted by the NEC at all 1% that's a cool model xD

Basically the comments

Too true, too true

But it is a new revolution. Even though the Japanese are show offs. Damn you Shinkansen

Lol

@@Kasmuller yes Britain was first but i wouldn't say we are the worst but they are pretty shit tho

made by a French company

I have always jokingly called Amtrak derailway

Yeah?

@Jordan Gerstein They would rather because Most of the New York City especially Manhattan has Over 20 Bus Routes going south-North and multiple cross-town bus routes going east-west Let’s not forget All subway lines except for the G actually go into Manhattan Island Who would need a taxi when you have over 30 Transit Options ranging from Subway Routes to Bus routes

it's really not that old. it's been upgraded and maintained throughout the years

Yeah let just replace all railway bridges/tunnels/viaducts every 5 years so its all new......are you f%@#*&$ kidding me.....people around the world use that kind of infrastructure that was built 50+ years ago.....cause i know this might be foreign to most modern Americans but there WAS a point in history when Americans oh I don't know 'BUILT THINGS TO LAST'!!!!! Also the concept of over engineering a bridge is a completely foreign concept to you isn't it? Why would a railway engineer ever only build a bridge/Tunnel to only handle what was currently available???? That is an incredibly stupid idea cause guess what once something only marginally faster/longer/heavier/taller came out WELP time to start over????? No railroad would pay for something with that short of a life span....railroads are all about longevity and getting long lasting value for their limited investment capital.

lineinf332 Could you link me to which TGV/Shinkansen/Chinese HSR have bridges and tunnels that old? Lol @ NEC trains having to significantly slow down for and even stop for drawbridges. Ahaha

Our TGV (i'm french) run through old and new lines. High speed lines (speed over 200km/h, usually 320 km/h) are all new ones with new tunnels and new bridges. Between France and England the tunnel under the sea is totally new, thus making London 2:20 away from Paris ; city center to city center.

***** 220mph available in select areas only

That's literally transit in Toronto

It's funny cause it's true

I prefer to see my money spended in trains, not in the army.

@@nicopavvi8494 exactly it'd improve all out lives

Toxic Acid pointless? it won’t be pointless when all of the isis and socialist scum is rounded up and shot!

Yea it should be Tesla's Hyperloop, except now we are still getting this antiquated updated train system. Ughh

@bobo...Yeah, but the bad news is that all trains run over tracks reserved for freight. Or so I thought. Fact check, please.

+Fréderic Euvrard no, it's been tested and it's a reality bro. But the politics are getting in the way. Big oil and politicians will not approve it until further into the future,or else it will cut into billions of their revenue.

YEEEEEEP

You're right, almost 99% of the US's track is owned by freighter companies, only the northeast corridor and a small section by the Great Lakes is owned by Amtrak.

Yeah its really catchy!

Same tbh

It’s nothing like the animation mate, very different. Would have liked this liveyy try in the animation better, it’s fine if it goes faster than the old one. Just don’t really like the horn though 😐

Yes beautiful train French power

DërKönigOpal yeah and the Acela is currently one of Amtrak’s few profitable routes so they should run it on the Keystone Corridor and as a hybrid between Liberty and Ne Regional.

America will give up and give Praise Thee Jesus to the Chinese, Japanese and Europeans for a job wekll done in their respected countries while accepting welfare checks from their won gobemint!!!!

I suggest the Hiawatha, it's already one of amtrak's busiest lines. Make an Express train directly from Milwaukee to Chicago and one that stops at every station. It's also only like a hundred miles and could be shortened to a one hour trip.

Caltrain is becoming electrified

Yeah the Acela is a train I absolutely love, but I've never ridden on. I can't justify the ticket price. I really doubt they're running the Train full all the time, so if they could at least add one coach car, they probably have massively increased ridership. But really more than anything they need to update all the rails so that the trains can actually run at their maximum speed. Acela doesn't even get to max out, so this train will certainly not. we also need to make the right to a little more efficient, I've heard that Boston actually has two or three stops just for the Acela with in one city. The Acela should be running two major stations like pain mainly, for local transport people can hop on the local Subways and such

using french built trains -.-

Well, we gotta start somewhere. We are a little bit behind... okay way behind.

true that

@@Steve_McMillen i mean u act like the U.S. can build tilting trains. Ofc were gonna get it from the french lol

@@bruhboi2334 The French help with independence from the British, so not the 1st time they'll help out.

NEC: sit yo ass down BNSF, CSX, UP!

Conrail shared assets and Norfolk southern use the northeast corridor aswell. And csx and various shortlines.

Freight trains can go 70MPH

Railfaner 232 That’s really slow

something else idk well, its not really slow 70mph is quite fast, but it is slow compared to the Avelia’s speed of 160-220

This is a French train though

UK: HOLD MY TEA

Italy: hold my pizza and Italo treno (Italo train) 574 km/h... P.S. im italian... 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

HELLO @@Sk1r0ss , how the pizza in Italy, also hows the tea as a brit i wish to know the teas of the world

India: hold my curry

Me

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I am

Me Too!

Yep

flyingscotsman91 91 its not funny...

Coastliner700 ok

I know that siren.

LMAO

Lol i like his vids

*Future, also called 90's here in Europe, just slightly updated

lol

this is RU-vid, not Gmail...

TGV: r/woooosh

Shanghai Maglev: whoooooooooooosh speed

Well, it's better than chinese cars. They legit copy and paste the cars from brands all over the world, change the badge and said it's a new car.

@@A.i.r_K no ones talking about cars bro, it’s no secret the rest of the world has better railways than us

@@mythrin yes, I know. But it's hard for me to control myself from saying that. Sorry that I changed the topic and I have to admit us railway is not the best

your not alone

I like it also

Same

its good

I quite agree, even at speeds like 180mph the north east corridor needs upgrades for tracks and wiring for the Avelia liberty.

If only We decided that infrastructure investment was worthwhile.

Eric Schuman true

ItsMyDank747-400 its bull shit i rode the aclea for a long time that train is part of. my life the new train go away send it pass washington like Raleigh nc

ItsMyDank747-400 hkdkdju😘

Typical gamer YEAH WE DONT NEED THE AVELIA!!!!!! WE DONT CARE ABOUT CHINA AND THEYRE 300 MPH TRAINS, WE CARE ABOUT OUR RELIABLE AND BEAUTIFUL SYSTEM, WE DONT NEED 160+ MPH TRAINS!!

I thought Gordon pulled the Passenger Express.

I think thomas grew up.

Na he is futuristic but not as fast

Yeah his ass is on Crack Cocaine rn

LOL

I’m pretty sure I saw a photo somewhere on the internet where it passed a freight train on the nec by seabrook

They are. The Northeast corridor is already mostly owned by amtrak, over 80% of it, meaning they have priority over freight. All the upgrades being performed are at nec.amtrak.com/projects

It's never gonna be Europe. That project would be soooooo expensive.

Well, yeah, the shear comparison in land mass alone proves that. We have a lot more space than the EU. This is why high speed rail isn't economically feasible.

Some parts are upgraded. The part from Newark to Trenton, has the electrical capacity for trains to go 240.

The Andromeda I would LOVE that. Most of that track is straight and fairly isolated, as well.

wanna look at my shades of grey? I have 50 of them!

The body design looks so un appeling andnot American

I agree, but sadly when we wait this long to get in the game, like we did, and have a stubborn traditionalist population, like we do, we needed to guarantee them it works, and what works looks Asian/Euro. Snooze you lose I guess?

@MR. Dino 4449 611: Particularly the "face". It looks like an Evil Dinosaur, lol :))

japanese designed trains are much better.

Well the painting scheme looked underrated for me

What does that mean?? You didn't like it ??​@@KingdomOfJapy

@@804titan yeah i didn’t like it

Ok do you like what they selected?​@@KingdomOfJapy

@@804titan umm yeah

Trainmon

Acela loved its new form!

yes it did

PokeSpe Fan98 Please make this a thing. I would love it.

Nice one

True. To me it's all under the Alstom umbrella.

its the SAME train like the french hight speed train TGV... stricly the same.. The difference between both : USA discover high rail speed when Europ use it since 25 years

It's not a TGV. But TGV-derived. This new Acela is a tilting train ( -> Pendolino tech), is an EMU (the TGV has two power cars coupled to un-powered coaches), and can have coaches added or removed easily (the TGV consists in fixed trainsets, coaches can be split only at a depot)

***** Yeah. However, I think that it may not be the greatest idea as the coupling isn't solid like a Pendolino\APT.

really? If it's a Pendolino derivtive it will be again two power cars with unpowered coaches. It won't, also, ever even think of reaching 220mph, that sounds like some top-class bs. I that thing even reaches commercial 300km/h that'll be already impressive.

Ikr. So many stupid people in the comments

Construction has already started in California. Texas is top contender for the hyperloop

Too bad no one will use it because it will be 3 times more expensive than a flight

"were finally joining the new generation of speed train travel" and as long as you only need to travel between DC and Boston... you've got it made

Lol.. Yea no kidding, or Los Angeles to San Francisco.. As for the rest of us in America, we're still in the 80's for rail commute.. America used to be the one country a lot of other countries dreamed of becoming.. We stopped advancing, while those countries that were once dreaming, put many people to work and literally left us in the dust,( with our eighties and nineties technology ).. Those countries are now twenty to thirty years ahead of us.. What have we been doing that whole time? I'd have to guess making weapons, and golf courses

i mean, i say the american govt is broke, but thank god it's not as broke as japan's government.

Europe: We have high speed trains on a few lines! What do you have USA? USA: The US Constitution and individual rights which are paramount here. What do you have Europe? Europe: We have high speed trains on a few lines! HA! Beat that!

@@DesertStateNevada We need something to replace the enterprize or improve it they want to Dublin in 1 hour beat that indeed .

@@lesliedodds4011 Uhh was I supposed to understand that?

@@DesertStateNevada Dublin in 1 hour it takes 2 hours but enjoy the ride the views brilliant you cant see much at 200 mph.

@@lesliedodds4011 I was pointing out that instead focusing on one thing Europe has, perhaps Europe should focus more on improving individual rights and freedom for people.

Because NEC tracks are really old. If they started somewhere else it would be in service already

It’s not the tracks causing the problems. It’s the pantographs on the trains that are not working because alstom designed them really poorly.@@MsCafecito

@@m--a They work well in France and will soon enter service, the issue clearly are the tracks

France is a very small country you shoud compare USA with EU and France with Wisconsin, California ou Montana. For french people driving through Montana was such an experience as landing on the moon. No comparison is possible 60M vs .9M inhabitants. An we have no (or very rare) bears. ;-)

Yeah lol stop copying.

Gavin Wateski Am I copying a piece of literature or song lyrics? I am just restating some statistical and very public data.

+Philippe Durand If we compare the United States to the EU, the comparison will still be unfavorable for the United States. Comparisons, however, are possible because, although we have large swathes of sparsely populated land, we also have large cities within largely urbanized regions. It's a shame that the United States doesn't have high speed rail but this development is a great start and in the region that would benefit most from it.

Put another way, population density in square kilometers, in France: 114 people/square kilometer, in the U.S: 33 people/square kilometer

SoundWolf, tip your bartender handsomely, you'll get that level of VIP service.

XD

It's literally the most corporate music ever

If there was a high speed section of track all the way from the bottom of the north east corridor to the top and high speed trains to run it, Amtrak would not not be so poor

You're absolutely right, the Acela has never been used to its max potential, the infrastructure is what needs the updating...not the Acela trains themselves!

yep, you do not wanna go to fast around Newark DE

Yep. In all likelyhood this train will be going over the same exact decrepit lift bridges that stop service to accommodate ponderous barges.

I find it interesting that you address this to America and not Amtrak for these concerns.

Juan Zarate Finally an intelligent comment.

...China has a larger land mass than the Continental US. it also has just as challenging Geography as we do. Yet they are embarking on a programme to build a national network of high speed passenger and even freight rail lines, not just a few "select" corridors. To tell the truth I'd rather take say 20 - 24 hours from Seattle to Chicago on a high speed train than be wedged into that torture device known as an airline coach seat and have someone effectively sitting in my lap for several hours, be treated like crap by the cabin crew, and deal with the indignity of TSA screening as well as worrying if items from my luggage will be pilfered and have to deal with getting into the city when the train travels direct from city centre to city centre. It's not because we don't have the technological resources to do it, it's that we don't have political wherewithal to let it happen.

China is building that purely for vanity reasons, and going in to massive debt for shit like that. Why don't you ask a chinaman about their currency?

...while we have been going into massive debt preparing for and fighting pointless wars that only make more enemies so the MICC has more wars to keep it in business. Our currency is a joke as well, total fiat with nothing backing it. I'd rather have the trains.

I'd rather not have anything that undermines rational economics and voluntary interaction.

Then wait 1 decade or go ahead 4 parralel universe

@@irexgaming2444ok

10% of the proceeds will go to Amtrak so they can actually buy the trains in real life!

Make that 30%

LOL

This!!!!! I love you for this!

DLC ??? sorry I don't speak the language that well … and I wanna share the joke !… ;)

Lol

Haha me too

Same

A $60 dlc at that😂

I swear when that comes out on TS imma buy that no matter the price

I think it comes in 2022

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Trump stfu

*Make America's Railroads Great Again

the world is flat

... but designed by a French company and French know-how: "Alstom", which builds the TGV since 1981 :-)

+jockrangeos 81? ... FUCK THIS IM NOT BOTHERING TO GO ON THE TGV NEXT YEAR AFTER 6 YEARS OF TRYING TO

it's like buying a Ferrari and only having dirt roads...

robo931

robo931

They are fixing the problem the real problem is not Amtrak it is those DC bureaucrats and the Democrat Party since Clinton's time they have not given Amtrak their money it was Clinton who put Joe Boardman in there Boardman is not a railroad man he is a bureaucrat because of Boardman the Pioneer and Desert Wind got the axe because the Boardman the Northeast Corridor was not improved when the Acela arrived because of Boardman the Empire Builder is over-staffed overburdened can always late because of Boardman the regionals are always late because of Boardman the Zephyr is not reliable and it only serves a few stops and always faces outages when there are avalanches in the Rockies because of Boardman the Southwest Chief has not been rerouted and they did not negotiate with BNSF for trackage rights and they are being jerks because their own but that Robber Baron Warren H. Buffett because of Boardman long-distance trains are not allowed on the east coast in the sunset limited has not been returned to service all because of one stupid accident was caused by a tugboat because of Boardman the coast Starlight had to take up all the road and there is no way for it to turn around at the stations which are blocked by commuter trains and because of Boardman Chicago is a mass Metra is hording the rails and Amtrak's equipment is outdated unreliable and not efficient they are still going off the Democrats budget a budget That was supposed to be cut when President Bush took office but was reinstated when Obama took power only one project got done Englewood Junction is not the choke point in Chicago the choke point is Belt yard outside of Union station Boardman knows this and he didn't fix it because of three things and they are Metro the Federal Railroad Administration including CSX cause of a monopoly in Chicago and project tiger which is operated by Obama Joe Boardman has failed and has been kicked out of office Wick is now the boss he has spent most of his life at Norfolk Southern he's been there he served as an engineer he's been to Chicago he knows what it's like and he intends to fix it and he intends to fix the Northeast Corridor also and the whole system but it won't happen until Congress give them their money and abolishes project tiger and replaces it with a new Transportation bill with gives money to Interstate 11 Amtrak and all of the railroads in the United States project tiger was proposed by democrats key among them that Jack Mormon Harry Reid that liberal witch Nancy Pelosi Bill Nelson of Florida and Chambers in Connecticut others people who were behind that bill were Hoyer and Makolsky of Maryland and from Illinois Durbin and Obama himself. With Trump now the president and Wick now the head of Amtrak we are going to drain the swamp Amtrak is going to get her money and we are going to get all of our railroads back Amtrak is going to use every cent of their money to replace their Fleet and get service back on all the lines.

Aaron Peavler/Geomodelrailroader Railroad Photography still a slight issue. u still need money. politics doesn't help, but upgrading transportation systems costs a lot of money.

[GTA]monkey ???

Literally one set has been completed

Phoenix Smith Burn

@@phoenixsmith8148 r/wooooooosh

dadyspleef Oh the Woosh, haven’t gotten that in a while.

Because we rely on air transport. And we are the best in that aspect. A high speed train cannot hope to match a boeing airliner in terms of speed.

But it can in terms of capacity, reliability, and adaptability.

Nicholas Mulder they have a good record because their trains are slow as shit. Plus ever heard of the shinkansen? Not a single death and it goes 200mph+

Us railway isn't safe enough for those speeds

Nicholas Mulder Well the tracks on the NEC are over 100 years old, and so is most of the birdges, tunnels ect.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united cities of the I-95 Corridor, and to the Chevrolets for which we depend one nation under Petrolium!!!!

JM

Pardon, ce TGV français d'Alstom a été repeint pour quel marque de boisson? Sorry, this French TGV from Alstom has been repainted for which brand of drink?

@@azelsaga6921 I think this model was specifically developed for the US based on the same model as the new TGV trains. The US rail safety standards are considerably more stringent so they have to literally reengineer the entire train. That's why Alstom is building the new Acela trains here and even have a pretty large local engineering department to deal with the design changes. Unfortunately, this also means that the trains are a lot more expensive.

@@TohaBgood2 Hello I see you seem interested in the project Maybe this video will interest you (english subtitles available) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Rn7dIZBAEnI.html

We'll see...

I can't imagine they're planning to hike the price much in conjunction with more frequent service. Higher price = less ridership, and presumably they want to have the trains filled as much as possible.

***** True. With high costs you wouldn't see many people on the train.

Let's just travel on planes until hyper loops arrive

uhh no Trains Rock

Yo!

2018

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2021-2025 and what they would have needed is borrow European Train control system since that signaling system used by European high-speed rail it's meant for speeds reaching 220 mph-250 mph 350-400 km/h. Current signal system is up to 170 mph 270 km per hour this was how the original TVM 300 French high speed rail signal system once operated until an upgrade in 1990 & 1994 Channel tunnel Paris North Station originally Waterloo London United Kingdom now St Pancras max speed 185 mph 300 km/h. 2006 200 mph Paris Eastern France & Frankfurt rhein-main Air Force Base via Kaiserslautern US Army base.

actually its been moved to 2022

2099

UK: Still shit

Czechia: hold my efficient train infrastructure with no competition.

@@Vortigan07 UK isn't really shit considering the fact you guys are pushing your steam trains really fast.

US:Atleast we still have sufficaint frieght trains

@@aleezacrawford7021 still useless buddy

*stares in German*

@@mitsumikyoya8746 // Alstom / France !!! pauvre crétin !!!!

@@toytoy515 Mais t'as rien compris! Il dit que les allemands (i.e., Siemens) sont pas contents,...

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i dont get it. its just another eurostar train

Im not amtrak

Question how are they starting to age I wanna know what they mean by that

LOL

question is why usa decades behind ww rail mass commute and one monopolizer continues in severe accidents...((

but lets see if they work on the project

Franklin Clinton I know that channel too!

@@teslauniversalactivatedtak9916 because of the sheer size of the us

Kentucky Trainiac I'M GONNA Acela express

But I miss the toasters :(

I'm gonna miss the Acela Express

It will still be an Acela that's not the official scheme...

acela is retiring in 2022 so we still got 3 years to see them