the puffy sleeves of his blue poplin jacket

Acela
Joseph Chelius

#Poetry #JosephChelius #EunoiaReview #Acela #Trains #Levittown

https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2025/02/27/acela/

Third time in Boston in the last 8 months, and still awaiting the new Acela trainsets...

Throwback: #WMATA Metro and #Acela #Amtrak in the snow on January 6th and 7th #WashingtonDC

Train travel is just so much nicer than flying. Just, gosh.

(Two strangers photoshopped out with magic eraser)
#Acela #Amtrak #RailTravel #morricone

On my way to #AAS245! Got some research to talk about, a press conference I'm super excited about, and, of course, the @ChandraScience booth. And to make it even better, it's a conference I can take the train to! #Acela #OnTheRightAmtrak

You might be surprised to hear that the US actually DO have SOME high(ish)-speed rail. Single line really – the Northeast Corridor, connecting Boston with Washington DC through Philadelphia, NYC and Baltimore. Service is Acela, the high-speed offer of Amtrak

With that context out of the way, I'd like to bring your attention to the latest Acela rolling-stock, the Avelia Liberty made by Alstom, based on the Avelia Horizon platform – and how much of a disaster that was

With manufacturing and assembly starting in 2017, trains were expected to enter service in 2022

However, with massively delayed manufacturing and multiple failed certifications caused by the inadequate, often ancient American infrastructure, Liberty trainsets, being 3 years behind schedule, are still not in commercial service, waiting for their time to shine.

There is no way they will start running passenger service in 2024. Maybe next year. Or maybe not. We'll see!

#BoringTravel Leaving #Washington on time on #Amtrak train 2122, #Acela to #NewYork, though I won't go quite there.

21 October
Happy Birthday to:
* Old Ironsides
* Me, and I get a train ride for my birthday, NY --> BOS

Here's a nice positive video from @citynerd about maglev transportation between DC <-> Baltimore <-> Philadelphia <-> NY <-> Boston, and why we should start planning for it now. #urbanism #maglev #publictransport #acela #northeast #dc #baltimore #philadelphia #newyork #Boston https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpbGMJc0r_k

Acela should have a pizza car. High-speed delivery of new york slices to the BOS-DC pizza wastelands

Anyone knows when the Amtrak Acela 2 trains will enter service??

I do not know why, but #Boston #SouthStation reminds me of the #SBB #CFF #FFS station of #Winterthur, #Switzerland. Or is my memory completely wrong?

Winterthur Architects Jung und Bridler (1896); J.F. Wanner, Beckh (1860)

Boston South Station: Architects Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge of Boston, 1899.
So definitively the exact same era.

20 - 30 Mbit/s on #Amtrak WiFi in the #Acela #AcelaExpress. Not that bad.