Hi All - if anyone is interested I wrote a trip report on a trip I took on Amtrak's non-stop Acela back in January - I'm so excited for all of this to be over and to be back on the rails!
Does anyone know what is going to happen to the old Acela train-sets once the new ones arrive? I personally would love to see them replace some NE Regional trains between Boston and DC, maybe with some trains going through to Virginia but others connecting to some sort of Virginia corridor trains?
Posted by Gilbert B Norman (Member # 1541) on :
Mr. Matt, my guess is one to a museum and nineteen others scrap. They will be in revenue service well into '22, and in the preceeding twenty-two years, they have had the "living Hades" run out of them.
There are few, if any, other routes over which they could operate. Yes young railfans dream at many another site, but scrap is what I forsee: