The project will develop 13 corridors between heavily populated areas, but only the ones in California and Florida will be truly high speed because,says Amtrak's Steve Kulm, those states will be the only ones to build tracks exclusively for high speed trains.
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But those most inconvenienced were aboard a train that left New York early Friday morning ended up grinding to a halt at 11 p.m. that night in Prince, West Virginia, after trees blocked tracks both in front of and behind it, Amtrak spokesman SteveKulm said.