From
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/...6/daily30.html
Last year, 774,421 people were carried by the Cascades' train, up 14.4 percent from 2007, which was the service’s second most popular year. The train travels 310 miles between Vancouver, British Columbia, and Eugene, with a one-way trip between those two cities taking around 12 hours, according to an Amtrak schedule.
Not bad for a train averaging ~26 mph. Imagine what it could do if Amtrak could get the trains average speed to 70 or 80 mph?
Are any stimulus funds being spent on the Cascades' tracks?
Well, upon further investigation, I discover the news report was wrong! It's 310 miles between Eugene and Seattle, not Vancouver B.C. The time is 6 hrs and 30 mins, not 12 hours. The actual average speed is ~48 mph not ~ 26 mph. It's also an additional 157 train miles to Vancouver B.C.
How wrong can reporters get?
