I've enjoyed my trips on the TGV and Shinkansen
200 mph city center to city center is pretty damned fast!
The Acela, the US's fastest train, is capable of 150 mph but track conditions limit that to maybe 50 miles of Northeast Corridor tracks. There is one spot in Bridgeport, CT, where the speed limit for all trains is 25 mph due to a very sharp curve just west of the station.
Money Dumbass wants for his SFBW** would be an enormous boost to passenger frail in the US.
**Stupid Fucking Border Wall
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