Everything about Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor totally explained
Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor (
SEHSR) is a passenger rail transportation project in the
United States to connect with the existing high speed rail corridor from
Boston, Massachusetts to
Washington, DC known as the
Northeast Corridor (served by Amtrak's
Acela Express and
Regional services and many
commuter railroads) and extend similar high speed passenger rail services south through
Richmond and
Petersburg in
Virginia through
Raleigh and
Charlotte in
North Carolina. Since first established in 1992, the
U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has since extended the corridor to
Atlanta and
Macon, Georgia;
Greenville, South Carolina;
Columbia, South Carolina;
Jacksonville, Florida; and
Birmingham, Alabama.
Most funding for the SEHSR to date has been by the USDOT and the states of North Carolina and Virginia. Both states already fund some non-high speed rail service operated for them by
Amtrak, and own
locomotives and passenger cars. The first large section of the SEHSR, from Washington, DC through Virginia and North Carolina south to Charlotte, is due to be in service by
2013 based on funding availability.
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The portion of the proposed Corridor from Richmond to Raleigh travels along the old
Seaboard Air Line Railroad main line, now
CSX's S line. This line sees much less intensive service than when the famous
Orange Blossom Special traveled at speeds in excess of 79 mph between Richmond and Jacksonville, Florida, and the quality of the tracks has declined. In fact, the tracks were entirely removed along the S line between
Centralia, Virginia and
Norlina, North Carolina in the late seventies in favor of CSX's A line, which largely runs parallel to I-95 and passes east of Raleigh through
Fayetteville, North Carolina. The A line is currently used for
Amtrak service, and is a more direct route to Florida than the S line, but adds an hour to the travel time from Richmond to Raleigh (and onto Charlotte.) In other areas double-tracking has been removed since the line's heyday. Significant upgrades and restoration will be required to support high speed service along the corridor; at the same time, the relative absence of freight trains along the S line will mean that significant curve straightening and other work can be accomplished without disrupting current service.
Further extensions from Charlotte through
Spartanburg and
Greenville, South Carolina to
Atlanta,
Macon, and
Savannah, Georgia are currently being studied, along with an extension from Raleigh through
Columbia, South Carolina to Savannah and on to
Jacksonville, Florida.
Virginia is also studying two other projects with connecting sections. One is the Richmond-Hampton Roads corridor, from Richmond east to
Hampton Roads.
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Transdominion Express, would extend from Richmond west to
Lynchburg and from Washington, DC (
Alexandria) south via an existing
Virginia Railway Express route to
Manassas, extending on south to
Charlottesville, Lynchburg,
Roanoke and
Bristol on the
Tennessee border.
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