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Canada’s Rail System May Have Peaked…in 1968 – Technology – The Atlantic Cities.

Max speed 170 MPH. 

Acela (today): 150 but reality 80 MPH.

Via rail, the rickety rail that strings the big cities on the east together, less than 100 MPH.

Why? Read. It’s a nothing new but it’s always an bitter pill–that hope has been, for the moment, stalled. Not dashed.