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Originally Posted by LOT 737-300
Well, the Amtrak Acelas and HHP8s (a two headed version of it) run on a route known as the Northeast Corridor. These are the only rails I recall that are owned and maintained by Amtrak. I know someone who once worked as a breakman on one of the Freght railroads and he recalled that the Freght trains were restricted to running at certain times on those tracks. This was way before the NEC had Acelas, maybe in the late 1960s-late 70s (Havn't asked him when he did the job.) But I would assume that Amtrak still limits when the freght trains run.
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they probably just don't want them clogging up the rails, because amtraks acelas and reginal service, run pretty fast, acela somtimes at 150 mph, and most of the time for both is 80 mph, oh ya and if you rode on one did the engineer somtimes cut the power to the engine, because mine did.