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A comment on Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of U.S. train travel. Parent comment

Re:Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of ... by marcianx on Sunday April 25, 2021 @02:23PM (#26935166)
NYC to Montreal (~370mi) takes ~8 hours by bus and 11 hours by train, though granted, times at Customs is more variable for the bus than for the train. I'm often surprised at how much the train shakes side to side on the occasions it's going "fast".

Contrast that to the TGV in France, which zooms around at 200mph and covered one of my trips between Paris and Avignon (~430mi) in ~2.75hrs about a decade ago. US train infrastructure feels extremely behind in comparison. Perhaps it's because of a greater emphasis on highway travel.

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Re:Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of ... by jcranmer on Sunday April 25, 2021 @02:28PM (#26935213)
NYC to Montreal is not part of the NEC; the NEC is solely the portion from DC to Boston.

That said, the NYC-Montreal and Boston-Toronto lines are lines that absolutely should be dedicated high-speed passenger rail in addition to the NEC, but they are not even dedicated passenger rail lines at the moment let alone proper 220mph HSR lines.

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Re:Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of ... by sacredcows on Sunday April 25, 2021 @04:00PM (#26936085)
To top it all off, Toronto-NY is one of the busiest air routes in the world, by number of scheduled flights.
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Re:Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of ... by matmatmatmat on Sunday April 25, 2021 @02:41PM (#26935340)
To be fair, that leg of the TGV happens to be some of the best track in the whole system. It's practically a straight, non-stop shot from Paris to Avignon on double decker cars with panoramic windows.
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Re:Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of ... by JJMcJ on Sunday April 25, 2021 @03:48PM (#26935983)
> how much the train shakes

Roadbeds are maintained to freight train standards, e.g., the difference in height of the two rails.

Amtrak depends on the "host railroads" who are not very hospitable to passenger traffic.

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