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DFW

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5. For how long?

Reply to FarCenter (Reply #2)

Sun May 11, 2014, 01:09 PM

May 2014

The rails on which the Acela travels are woefully antiquated. The whole Boswash corridor should be redone. DC to South Station should take four hours, not seven.

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