Sure is compared to most trains in US.

Not particularly, but it’s important progress for a country with essentially zero inter-city trains running.

Such a pity too, the shape of the country just really seems to make so much sense for trains - just run a big north-south line and connect basically everything anyone would care about.

Who the fuck uses mph

mph means absolutely nothing to people living outside the burger empire, you might as well be saying ferrets per hour