Re: New Super Fast Train Boston -> NY -> DC WHEN?

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From: John R. Levine
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:42

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>The article states that service between Boston and DC
>would begin "sometime in 1993".

The X2000 is an evaluation unit.  There are supposed to be others from
other manufacturers.

Once Amtrak decides which one they like, they'll contract to buy some,
modified to U.S. standards (which turn out to be surprisingly different
from European) and for political reasons assembled in the U.S.

-- 
John R. Levine, IECC, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 492 3869
johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {ima|spdcc|world}!iecc!johnl
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