Stew's High Speed Rail News May 2024 | Brightline West Texas Central CAHSR Acela NEC

Brightline West breaks ground, Texas Central gets a diplomatic boost, California High Speed Rail adopts a business plan. All this and more in this month's episode of high speed rail news for the United States.

For the moment I am covering what I can find concerning California High Speed Rail, Brightline West, Texas Central High Speed Rail, Cascadia Ultra High Speed Rail, Acela / Northeast Corridor, and Dallas / Fort Worth HST, Northeast Maglev as these are all projects that plan to meet or exceed a top speed of 150MPH. There ARE others in early planning stages and passed among railfans in hushed whispers like Chicago Hub Network, Memphis to Atlanta, Atlanta to Charlotte, HSR inside Michigan, and now Brightline 2.0. I know there are other lines in the U.S. that hit 110-125MPH. such Brightline in Florida and Keystone service in Pennsylvania. I may eventually add those, especially 125+. I haven't decided. It kind of depends if 150mph+ projects continue to provide 10-12 minutes of content each month.

Special thanks to    / @epicsnake21   for the NEC footage. Go check out their channel.

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Chapters:

0:00 Hey It's Your Old Pal Lucid Stew Again
0:12 Brightline West
2:48 Texas Central
4:23 California High Speed Rail
9:10 High Desert Corridor
10:01 Acela & The NEC
12:31 Stew's Boo Boos
13:15 Thanks & Up Next
13:34 See You On That Big, Beautiful Freeway!

Topics:

Siemens American Pioneer 220
Brightline West
Brightline West groundbreaking
Pete Buttigieg
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Las Vegas, NV
Las Vegas Strip
NDOT
Victor Valley station
Preliminary construction work
100% design
Earth Day
Friends of P
2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics
Wes Edens
FRA
STB
Metrolink
San Bernardino Line electrification
Rancho Cucamonga 8th St. station
DTLA
downtown Los Angeles
Brightline West President Sarah Watterson
Texas Central
President Biden
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida
Shinkansen
Texans Against High Speed Rail
Representative Jake Ellzey
Texas Rail Advocates
Andy Byford
Train Daddy
California High Speed Rail
CAHSR Board of Directors
CAHSR 2024 Business Plan
Ridership models
Project timelines
Funding Target Dates
San Diego
Jim Patrick
Lies
CAHSR Federal Bailout
California High Speed Rail Phase 2
RFP for Trainsets
RFQ for Trainsets
Alstom Avelia Liberty
Buy American Waiver
CAHSR and BLW Collaboration
California Senate Bill 1260
CAHSR Train Interior Renders
Party Car
Central Valley Progress
High Desert Corridor
Palmdale
Victorville
High Desert
HDC JPA
Joe Biden Come On Man
NEPA
Acela
NEC
Northeast Corridor
Saugatuck Bridge Rehabilitation
MTA Penn Station Access Project
Hell Gate Line
Amtrak Monthly Performance Report
Operating Results
Social Media Foamers
American High Speed Rail Act
Democrats
Democrat-ick Party
Motley Crue
Pacific Northwest HSR

References:

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https://rivcodistrict2.org/news/brigh...
   • December 14, 2023 - RTC Board of Comm...  
https://scienceblog.com/543983/on-ear...
https://www.transportation.gov/briefi...
https://la28.org/
   • A Billionaire’s Blueprint For Buildin...  
https://railroads.dot.gov/railroad-sa...
https://www.stb.gov/
   • From Sin City to Los Angeles, constru...  
https://jp.usembassy.gov/president-bi...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-r...
  / texansagainsthsr  
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  / repjakeellzey  
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https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/amt...
https://hsr.ca.gov/about/board-of-dir...
https://hsr.ca.gov/about/board-of-dir...
https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-n...
https://legiscan.com/CA/votes/SB1260/...
https://highdesertcorridor.org/
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