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- <title>
- Feb. 15, 1993: On the Fast Track
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 15, 1993 The Chemistry of Love
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 18
- BUSINESS
- On the Fast Track
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Amtrak tests a faster train as U.S. rail industry considers
- speeding up
- </p>
- <p> Amtrak is throwing a curve into train travel--a more than
- 100-m.p.h. curve. The national rail service's new X2000
- high-speed train began operating on the Washington-New York
- Metroliner route. The X2000 can go up to 155 m.p.h., but until
- it gets speed clearance from the Federal Railroad
- Administration, it will operate at the normal Metroliner maximum
- speed of 125 m.p.h. Still, it goes from D.C. to N.Y.C. in 2 hr.
- 40 min.--15 min. faster than conventional trains. Its secret:
- a hydraulic tilting system that helps it take curves 40% faster.
- </p>
- <p> As Amtrak opened its new speedster to the public, the
- Association of American Railroads announced that in theory at
- least, freight railroads are willing to cooperate with Amtrak
- to help make widespread high-speed passenger rail travel a
- reality. Amtrak is already moving ahead. This summer the company
- plans to test out a German train that can go up to 185 m.p.h.
- Amtrak plans to have 26 high-speed trains running by 1997.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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