India's 'Zee News' takes an interest in Amtrak's Acela

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...but for what reason, I don't know, as the only English dialogue in the entire almost 13-minute segment is a very general Q&A with the train's conductor. I found this as a suggested video while watching the 2014 Acela 'over-165MPH' video:

"Special report: Specialty of US' Amtrak trains"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuRuH-2yIto

(for some reason I can't copy/paste despite changing my settings to allow plaintext pasting)

I'm pretty sure there are more impressive services closer to ZN's broadcast area, raising the question why ZN picked the Acela as an example.

The description only hints at the report as an adjunct to the new (well, as of may 2014) prime minister Narendra Modi's interest in bringing high-speed rail to India.

(addendum: I see the PM visited the US a couple of weeks or so ago, this is probably part of it.)

---PCJ (yes, I pretty much posted this hoping jis weighs in on this curiosity :) )
 
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