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They keep emphasizing 'trains'. You gotta know your market. Emphasize the 'bullet'.
Yeah, we have all sorts of trains, at least for freight, but no “bullet”. How did that happen?
Technically there’s Acela - this morning I watched a video where someone used their gps to catch Acela hitting its top speed of 160mph. High speed rail! Technically. For a few minutes