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

Re:Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of ... by ac29 on Sunday April 25, 2021 @03:38PM (#26935875)

Its a little short of 1200km and goes through some very rugged terrain (cascade mountains). Yes, it would be nice if it was faster, but comparing it to say Paris - Berlin (about the same distance) isnt quite right for several reasons.

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Re:Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of ... by kuschku on Sunday April 25, 2021 @04:04PM (#26936119)

Rome - Frankfurt (about 1200km) takes (with a looot of changes, and a lot of different trains) about 11 hours.

With an ECx or ECE it'd be below 8h.

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Re:Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of ... by jhgb on Sunday April 25, 2021 @04:01PM (#26936097)

Yep, that should be slightly under 10 hours on my country's terrible railway network (if my country were that long). We have to operate those ETR 470-derived trains ("ČD Class 680") at like 65-70% of their design speed since we don't have any proper rails for them either.

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