JetTrain
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The JetTrain was an experimental high-speed passenger train concept created by Bombardier Transportation in an attempt to make European-style high-speed service more financially appealing to passenger
Bombardier’s experimental JetTrain locomotive toured North America in an early-2000s attempt to raise the technology's public profile.
Controls of the JetTrain
Acela Express (trainset)
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The first-generation Acela Express trainset is a unique trainset used on the Acela, Amtrak's flagship high-speed service along the Northeast Corridor in the Northeastern United States. When they debut
JetTrain
…high-speed service more financially appealing to passenger railways throughout North America. It was designed to use the same LRC-derived tilting car Acela trains that Bombardier built for Amtrak in the 1990s, which used all-electric locomotives. Unlike the Acela, powered electrically by overhead lines…
Amtrak Acela Express train, led by power car #2009, at Old Saybrook, Connecticut
Business Class car interior
Acela Express trainset undergoing testing at Transportation Technology Center in 2000
Overhead view of an Acela power car in Boston; an MBTA Orange Line subway train is also visible in the background.