(The Associated Press circulated the following article on October 31.)
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Amtrak trains hit 110 mph on some stretches as high-speed rail made its debut in the 104-mile Keystone Corridor from Harrisburg to Philadelphia.
“It was pleasant,” Anthony Merritt, of Lancaster, who arrived on one of the new trains Monday in Harrisburg. “The comfort and the speed, it was a good combination.”
Express trains, which stop only in Harrisburg, Elizabethtown, Lancaster, Paoli and Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, take 90 minutes to make the trip, one-half hour less than the old service. Local trains that include stops in Middletown and Mount Joy take 105 minutes.
Ten of the 14 Keystone trains from Harrisburg continue on to New York, and express train riders can complete that trip in 3 hours, 15 minutes.