Acela Regional is Amtrak's
service between Washington,
DC and Boston. It is also known as NortheastDirect.
There is frequent daily daily service. Most trains are unreserved. Most have Business
Class and a Cafe Car. Trains run all hours of the day, and one train, "The
Federal" provides late-night/early morning service between Washington and
Boston, giving the corridor 24-hour service.
Trains are usually 3-10 cars long, with a electric locomotive
pulling at the head end. The electric locomotives are AEM7
class, built 1978-1987
with 7000 horsepower, or a Acela
HHP-8 built 1999-2002,
with 8000 horsepower. The cars are Amfleet I and II series passenger cars built
by the Budd Company in the mid to late
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1970s. At leat several of
the cars are coaches, one or two may be Business Class, and there is one Cafe
Car (sometimes two).
