There are really two Amtraks. There is the Northeast Corridor, including the Acela, and then there is everything else. I mean this fairly literally: Amtrak bo

There are really two Amtraks. There is the Northeast Corridor, including the Acela, and then there is everything else. I mean this fairly literally: Amtrak both owns are operates the NEC vs. the situation for the rest of the country. They even operate different Twitter/X accounts for service alerts between NEC and "everything else". The Northeast Corridor operates something like a typical middle-distance, reasonable frequency, reasonable timeliness rail system would do in a European country. The rest of Amtrak is for rail fans only.