Dream High Speed Rail Northeast Corridor

Amtrak Acela Express is not true high speed rail.

• The top speed is 150mph and it only reaches this speed a few times on the Northeast Corridor. 
• The average speed between Boston and Washington D.C. is slightly under 70mph, which is very slow compared to high speed rail around the world.

• New high speed rail lines in China are much faster:
• The average speed on the route between Wuhan and Guangzhou is 194mph and cut the 600 mile trip from 10 hours by rail to 3 hours:

On the Beijing-Tianjin intercity rail, 85% of the track is on viaducts, which allow for a smooth route and high speeds to go on:

The Northeast Corridor tracks are overused and old. The tracks have many curves which permit the acela express from traveling much faster.

This is what the route should look like:

There can be 2 levels of service, an express and local.
         
            Express: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington D.C.
            Local: Boston, Hartford, Stamford, New York, Trenton, Philadelphia, Baltimore,                                        BWI and Washington D.C.

• There would be viaducts built on new tracks on a new route to allow for high speeds between Boston and Washington D.C.
• The travel time could be 90 minutes from Boston to New York
• And 90 minutes from New York to Washington D.C.

This is another route that goes over Long Island:

True high speed rail in the Northeast would require new tracks and new viaducts to allow for fast speeds.

The Northeast Corridor is 450 miles long, and trains that would have an average speed of over 100mph instead of the disappointing 70mph for acela would cut the time between Boston and Washington D.C. significantly.