Quoting from the brief article you didn't read: > Amtrak previously has said the new trains could potentially shave 20 minutes off the travel time between New

Quoting from the brief article you didn't read: > Amtrak previously has said the new trains could potentially shave 20 minutes off the travel time between New York City and Washington, D.C., reducing the duration to around 2½ hours > because of Amtrak’s old infrastructure, the new trains can only travel at top speed during certain portions of the journey [...] Infrastructure upgrades planned over the coming years will improve trainspeed and reliability, the railroad said. > Each new train will hold 386 passengers, an increase of 27% compared with the current fleet. Therefore: Faster trains carrying more people. Just not faster on day 1.