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Why America Still Doesn’t Have Fast Trains 7 minute read An Amtrak high-speed Acela train (center) in Philadelphia's Race St. yards, c. 2000. Harry Hamburg—NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images ...

The newly debuted NextGen Acela trains will run with a top speed of 160 mph, out-speeding the previous Acela fleet by 10 mph.

The NextGen Acela trains, as Amtrak calls them, are faster and lighter than the current fleet. They're scheduled to start ...