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Susquehanna River Bridge (Northeast Corridor)
The Susquehanna River Bridge is a Truss bridge, deck truss bridge that carries the Northeast Corridor rail line across the Susquehanna River between Havre de Grace, Maryland, Havre de Grace and Perryville, Maryland, United States. Both the bridge and the Northeast Corridor are owned by Amtrak. The two-track bridge has 17 fixed spans and one swing bridge, swing span across the river's navigation channel. It carries up to 114 daily passenger and freight trains. The first bridge at the site was opened in 1866 by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, replacing a train ferry service in use since 1837. The Pennsylvania Railroad opened the current bridge in 1906; the older bridge was reused as a road bridge from 1909 to 1940 and demolished in 1942–43. Several rounds of repairs and rehabilitation took place from the 1960s to the 2000s. Construction of a pair of two-track replacement bridges is expected to begin in 2025 and continue through 2036. Design and operations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acela Express
The ''Acela'' ( ; originally the ''Acela Express'' until September 2019) is Amtrak's flagship passenger train service along the Northeast Corridor (NEC) in the Northeastern megalopolis, Northeastern United States between Washington, D.C. and Boston via 13 intermediate stops, including Baltimore, New York City and Philadelphia. ''Acela'' trains are the fastest in the Americas, reaching (qualifying as High-speed rail#North America, high-speed rail), but only for approximately of the route. ''Acela'' carried more than 3.2 million passengers in fiscal year 2023, second only to the slower and less expensive ''Northeast Regional'', which had over 9.1 million passengers. Ridership was down from the pre-COVID-19 pandemic high of 3,557,455 passengers in 2019. Its 2024 revenue of $531 million was around 21% of Amtrak's total. ''Acela'' operates along routes that are used by slower regional passenger traffic, and only reaches the Rail speed limits in the United States, maximum allow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
