Salon.com > Trains http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 14:04:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Amtrak testing 165mph trains http://www.salon.com/2012/09/24/amtrak_testing_165mph_trains/ http://www.salon.com/2012/09/24/amtrak_testing_165mph_trains/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:28:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13020684 TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Amtrak is going to break the speed limit this week in the Northeast Corridor.

The rail service announced Monday it will operate test trains overnight at 165 mph in four stretches from Maryland to Massachusetts.

Acela Express equipment will be used for the tests, which were to start at about 10:30 p.m. Monday in New Jersey.

All the locations may one day have regular 160 mph service. Amtrak said tests need to be performed at 5 mph above what is expected to be a maximum operating speed of 160 mph.

Two test locations — from Perryville, Md., to Wilmington, Del., and from Trenton to New Brunswick, N.J. — currently have a speed limit of 135 mph. The two others — in Rhode Island from Westerly to Cranston and in Massachusetts from South Attleboro to Readville — currently have 150 mph limits.

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