Acela Express
Acela Express is Amtrak's flagship high-speed train service. It runs along the Northeast Corridor, which is in the Northeastern United States between Washington D.C and Boston. It has 16 stops, including Providence, Rhode Island; Baltimore, Maryland; Philadelphia and New York City. On some parts of the track, the trains are able to go up to 150 miles per hour (240 km/h), this makes the Acela trainsets the fastest ones in the Americas. Acela carried more than 3.4 million passengers in 2016. Only Northeast Regional carried more people then, over 8 million. Acela 2016 revenue was US$585 million, 25% of Amtrak's total.[1][2]
New trainsets are to be introduced in 2024.[3]
Acela Express Media
Map of the areas and stations served by Acela in 2006
Acela Express trainset undergoing testing at TTC in 2000
Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Arlen Specter riding the Acela Express to Philadelphia in February 2009
An Acela Regional train at South Station, Boston in 2002
Acela Express trainset 20 passes by Oakland Park in Metuchen, NJ
Avelia Liberty trainset 20 testing in Metuchen, New Jersey, in August 2025
An Acela Express train passes a Metro-North New Haven Line train in southwestern Connecticut
Acela passing through a platform track at Kingston Station in Rhode Island at 150 mph.
References
- ↑ Northeast Corridor Employee Timetable #5 (October 6, 2014)National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak). p. 110. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
- ↑ Amtrak FY16 Ridership & Revenue Fact Sheet (April 17, 2017)Amtrak. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
- ↑ Walker, Alissa. Amtrak’s New Acela Fleet Is Languishing in a Rail Yard (in en-us). Curbed (2023-05-31). Retrieved 2023-06-18.
