Article: "FAST" AMTRACK TRAIN IS RUNNING AT HALF - SPEED.(LOCAL)

Byline: Pat Lackey

Once upon a time the boss at Amtrak, a quasi-private rail company, tired of the usual bad news about late trains and low ridership. For relief, he called in an underling to report on Amtrak's super speedy Acela Express, a passenger train running from Washington, D.C., to Boston and back.

Boss: Freshen my memory here, Joe. How fast does that sucker go?

Underling: It blazes down the track, sir, at 150 miles an hour. She is sleek.

Boss: How far does it go?

Underling: About 450 miles.

Boss: So it takes, what, a little over three hours?

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