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Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor Power Supply Is Ancient and Failing
This train could be going 150 miles an hour if we fixed the overhead wires. Photo: Doug Kanter/AFP/Getty At least ten times in the past two months, tens of thousands of people had their days ruined by a failure of one of the most fundamental pieces …