The Northeast Corridor IS high speed rail. Fight me to the death! This is the only high speed rail we have in the United States, at least for 5 or 10 years until Brightline West or California High Speed Rail are operating.

ATTN: at 2:21 I made an attribution error. This video is actually    / @stevegettingaroundphilly  
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The NEC and Acela service are roundly derided as not real high speed rail, and some of that is deserved. It's certainly not fast high speed rail, and it's not high speed rail at an international standard, at least not in the last 30 years. However, there is room for improvement and its possible to turn the corridor around and make it more respectable compared to modern high speed rail. Places with far few resources than the United States have decent HSR right now, so I think it's reasonable to expect the same here at home. Capital investment on high speed rail isn't cheap. This video will look at various options and ideas being floated and will try to conclude what travel times might be achieved and at what cost.

Special thanks to EPICSNAKE for the great NEC footage featured throughout the video. Please show your gratitude and check out their channel when you get a chance.
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Stock footage from Pexels.com and Pixabay.com

Attribution:

Penn Central 4879, ready to leave for New York City with the continuation of the Southern Railway's Crescent, in May 1976. Construction was for a visitor center in connection with the Bicentennial.

by Drew Jacksich

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0 series shinkansen near Yurakucho Station in Tokyo

by Roger Wollstadt

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View of the Atlantic City Boardwalk, looking south from the skyway at Caesars Atlantic City, in Atlantic City, NJ, US

by Silveira Neto

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Chapters:

0:00 Hey, it's your old pal Lucid Stew, again!
0:15 A Brief History of the NEC
2:45 The Region
4:32 Between Washington D.C. and Baltimore
5:56 Super Simple Estimating Algo
6:20 Baltimore
7:20 Between Baltimore and Wilmington
9:21 Wilmington Bypass
10:47 Philly Bypass
13:53 Manhattan Bypass
14:24 Southwest Connecticut
14:48 NEC FUTURE NYC to Boston
15:54 New Haven to Hartford
16:47 NYC Harlem Line to Hartford
18:37 Long Island High Speed Railroad
21:23 Hartford to Boston via Worcester
24:16 NYC-White Plains-Hartford-Boston
24:50 The Voyage Under the Sea
25:24 NYC-New Haven-Hartford-Boston
26:32 Summary
27:01 Up Next
27:25 See you on that big, beautiful freeway!

Topics:

NEC
Northeast Corridor
Federal Railroad Administration
high speed rail
Acela Express
Pennsylvania Railroad
Washington D.C.
Philadelphia
Boston
New York City
New York Penn Station
North River Tunnels
Hell Gate Bridge
Penn Central
Amtrak
Metroliner
Shinkansen
Acela II
Alstom Avelia Liberty
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
Baltimore
Providence
Washington Union
Seabrook
Baltimore Washington International
Patuxent Research Refuge
Odenton
MARC
Baltimore Metro
Frederick Douglass tunnel
Baltimore Penn Station
Gunpowder River Bridge
Bush River Bridge
Susquehanna River Bridge
Perryville
Aberdeen
Wilmington
Newark
Trenton
Delaware River
New Jersey Turnpike
PATCO
Camden
Atlantic City
Bronx
Fordham Plaza
New Haven
Hartford
White Plains
Danbury
Waterbury
Long Island
Long Island Sound
Worcester
Harlem Line
Hartford Union Station
Grand Central Terminal
Jamaica Station
Queens
Long Island Railroad
MTA Metro-North
MTA-LIRR
Boston South Station