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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,393 posts) Fri Jan 11, 2019, 11:42 AM Jan 2019

The fastest trains in the U.S. are about to get faster.

Will New Train Guidelines Improve Speeds? Not So Fast
Rules allow travel up to 220 mph, but no U.S. tracks can handle it

By Jo Craven McGinty
Jan. 11, 2019 7:33 a.m. ET
The fastest trains in the U.S. are about to get faster.

Beginning this month, the government will allow railroads to operate passenger trains capable of traveling up to 220 mph.

There’s just one catch: No U.S. track can handle that much speed.

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The fastest trains in the U.S. are about to get faster. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2019 OP

These trains and stuff are so advanced overseas. Crutchez_CuiBono Jan 2019 #1

Yea we are not that great after all. pwb Jan 2019 #2

Not interested in dying in a wadded up pile of scrap metal. House of Roberts Jan 2019 #3

Because driving is much safer than any other form of transport. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2019 #4

It is. House of Roberts Jan 2019 #5

Instead of building a wall why not build fast train tracks katmondoo Jan 2019 #6

Crutchez_CuiBono

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1. These trains and stuff are so advanced overseas.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2019, 11:53 AM

Jan 2019

If the gop would quit siphoning off any monies from the treasury we can have nice things too. It's not the gop piggy bank, and the idea that if the smallest amount of reserves start to build up, that it's a sign that rich folks have "paid too much" (EYEROLL), triggering a tax cut to help themselves to the funds, has got to stop.