Timeline of America’s High-Speed Rail Future 

As an honest criticism please don’t talk about hydrogen and battery freight equipment for over half the runtime of a video that is titled “high speed rail week”… battery and hydrogen trains are GREENWASHED solutions that freight companies are utilizing to not invest in “real” electrification (catenary, EMUs, etc). Battery and hydrogen trains are something that shouldn’t be praised, it’s an example of billion dollar corporations doing the bare minimum by utilizing technology that has not proven itself.

Instead of saying "cars gained popularity" you should really say "when the federal gov pushed and subsidized car ownership"

Seems like American freight companies will consider literally any option other than proper electrification!

I rode the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Kyoto in 2018. Along with many other JR lines. Rail travel is so wonderful. I’m taking my first U.S. rail trip soon as well, going from Savannah, GA to Charleston, SC via Amtrak on the Palmetto line. It’s sad that the first time I rode a train wasn’t even in my home country.

You, Sam had done some serious work for this series. Well done!

"High Frequency Rail" will not be electrified outside of Toronto and Montreal, and will likely use SC-42Es (which will be retrofitted SC-42s currently being used) once GO Transit turns into the Toronto S-Bahn.

Thank you for your constructive and well designed videos. As someone who is passionate about high speed rail travel, I do believe that videos like yours are just helping the cause in bringing first class rail travel to this country. The economic, climate, as well as convince factors are too great of an opportunity to miss out on.

You might need to update about bright line because they are ahead of schedule and they might start service earlier around Christmas of 2022

I wish texas central will happen, but it doesn’t look like it will happen anytime soon. The Texas Supreme Court did an about-face and decided to hear the case that would make it impossible for Texas Central to obtain the eminent domain rights to build their railroad. Incidentally, if they rule against Texas Central, they would make it impossible for any Texas-grown railroad upstart to build a railroad in Texas while making it legal for a foreign entity like SNCF to do so. On top of that, a few days ago the CEO of Texas Central just stepped down. With the future of the project in perpetual limbo thanks to an entirely Republican Texas Supreme Court, funding for Texas Central has dried up and they are 600k+ behind on property taxes on land they own and on which they cannot yet build. I encourage you all to read about the case (Miles v. Texas Central) and watch the RU-vid video of the arguments before the Texas Supreme Court because it shows just how frustratingly difficult it is to build HSR in the US. The people suing Texas Central are saying it’s not a railroad company because it has no trains on tracks yet and can therefore not use eminent domain to build the tracks on which trains would go, even though being able to build your tracks seems like an implied prerequisite for being a railroad company. It’s pretty disappointing and it doesn’t mean it’s the end of the line for HSR in texas, which probably is the best candidate for HSR in the country, but it does mean years of delays are likely.

Best part of the day: new HSRW2 content!! Brilliant as always, Sam!!

All the hydrogen fuelcell and battery locomotives are just a compensation for a failure to electrify the mainlines as it's been done in a lot of other countries. That would be infrastructure investment and apparently that makes it magnitudes more expensive than a bunch of fancy new locomotives. 18:00 first time I see this design, is it the final livery? Looks decent to me.

Nice, the last HSRW2 episode on my birthday!🥳

I don’t understand “zero emissions locomotives” electrified locomotives are already zero emissions.

You didn't mention the Brightline stop that was recently approved on Universal Studios donated land here in Florida. People here are pushing for a connection to Jacksonville, Florida (following I95) as well. Excellent video by the way 👏

When it comes to modern rail passenger services, the US are still 50 years behind! Up until today, even the Acela has only a short stretch of track where it can run at the speed it was designed for. Interest in trains in the general public is too low and therefore appropriation of funds will remain too restrictive to actually build a real network of highspeed trains.

I hope that brightline west gets extended to Salt Lake City

Great video always excited for new high speed rail episodes especially!

Awesome video! I loved this series! Well done!

in 2023 with the construction of Brightline west with Texas Central high-speed rail, Indonesia has operated the high-speed rail route from Jakarta to Bandung (Phase 1) as well as the first country to have high-speed rail in Southeast Asia. Phase 2 will continue from Bandung to Surabaya.

Love the Amarican Railways 👍 USA have very much potential for highspeed trains 💪❗ This country is so big.Best place for highspeed trains and systems ❗ The ACELA is so beautiful! And the Inter City in Florida 👍

Excellent snapshot of the state of our rail system. One thing, though, I wouldn't call the Metroliner a success. You couldn't even drink a coffee in one because it shook and bounced so much that the only thing to do was to sit and nothing, including not even reading :)

imo as a floridian is they want brightline to be more successful, they need to expan the sunrail lines to more rural areas as kindof like subareas and have them connected to the brightline as more of the main line in the state

I have the credits and privileges of riding both the X2000 and ICE on the Northeast corridor when they came to the US. I was a kid then but I do remember it.

hope the MBTA will be able to modernize at some point like California and other places are.

High speed rail been around since the 1890s American was the very first country to have the fastest train in the world back in these days, it was all steam powered, and the Pioneer zephy streamliner.

I’m actually first lol. Also amazing video and narrating, I love this series

You should've talked about go transits rer expansion project.

Will the avelia enter service at all

I don't think a solely battery powered train can be classified as a zero emissions train. The battery will have a far lower lifespan than a normal electric train. Just look at the AEM-7 (Rc4)

I wish American bullet trains were as wide as Japanese and Chinese bullet trains.

Really annoyed that CAHSR is delayed by so much... No way to force it to happen sooner?

I just saw a video yesterday about companies saying they will go 0-carbon emissions in 10-20 years or so. (28 years like in the video is a joke.) They said this is B.S. First they aren't serious, second they are increasing their emissions in the short term. It's like someone who says they're going to stop smoking in 10 years, but in the meantime they will increase their smoking to a pack a day or more.

Though it is true that battery electric trains are *technically* more environmentally friendly than diesel trains, a true commitment would be electrification

I still can't understand any possible connection between "high-speed trains" and hydrogen-, or battery-operated trains! We need better rails, with no traffic interruptions.

Haha yes last vid on meh bday

Is GREEN so much better for the environment? It appears that way on its face, but what about the energy needed to produce the batteries and how much will their disposal at end of service?

cool a Tesla Locomotive.

Reminder : BUSES ARE NOT TRAINS

Please, Brightline FL is *not* high speed rail. It may be the closest to HSR in America, like Acela, but it simply is not.

I truly dislike the recent “new” locomotives

California HSR goes 220

Idk why you bring up battery electric trains and hydrogen fuel cells so much, both fairly expensive, and in case of the fuel cells inefficient technologies not suited for HSR. Just electrify the darn tracks

"The rest of the world"? Not all countries outside of the US have high speed rail.

Video title has no connection to the video. Just everything at once also repeating past videos. It seems to me there is more “environmentally friendly” than high-speed rail in the video

Good luck with hydrogen and electric locomotives. Both technologies are more hazardous then diesel. I'm guessing they will both faii.

Lets not call 125 mph high speed rail. Its like calling 50 mph highway speeds. Maybe a long time ago it was the standard but today it is not even close

why are you showing batt electric and hydrogen FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVES in a High speed passenger rail video. you spent well over 5 minutes talking about it.

Wow 150 mph? You have to be 200 mph to be classified as a bullet. A Japanese maglev super train in the northeast corridor would travel at speeds of up to 375 mph. This means you can board in Washington DC and be in your office in New York city in an hour or less. Come on America, what in the hell are you waiting for? You can obtain the maglev system from Japan for 65 billion dollars. Better than the 200 billion dollars you spent on the space shuttle program, where's the space shuttle at now? Japan even offered to contribute 5 billion dollars towards the project. Oh yeah that's right, The mighty United States of America has to save it's money because they want to send some fool to mars. Like that's going to benefit the general American people, improving infrastructure. Oh well so much for wisdom. I guess these modern marvels will have to continue to be the new American dream....

Texas Central is dead, they have no money and their entire staff resigned. It’s over.

florida's train only going 125mph is a national embarrassment lmao really doesn't even deserve to be included in this video

Hey United States of America, tap on Japanese maglev train and see a real train. Highspeed bullet trains and maglev super trains in the United States? I'll believe it when I see it. The mighty United States of America and Americans are all talk. They alway were. Cant just stand up and do it.

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