Date: Wednesday, 19 May 1993 7:27am ET
To: DEARBORN
From: Caroline.Young
Subject: AMTRAK X-2000: MICHIGAN
 
Here is additional information on the high-speed train.
 
This Swedish Tilt-Train has tested at up to 155 MPH on the Northeast Corridor,
according to the American Railway Engineering Association BULLETIN.  Amtrak
will be running a Chicago-Kalamazoo round-trip with it on Tuesday, June 22,
1993, and then one-way to Detroit that evening.  On Wed. 6/23, it will make a
round-trip, Detroit-Battle Creek.  The train will be on static, public display
the following afternoon (Trs. 6/24) at Greenfield Village in Dearborn.  On
Fri. 6/25, the equipment will run one-way to Chicago from Detroit, concluding
its brief Michigan appearance.
  All trips over our Michigan Line and the Amtrak Line will be by invitation,
only, with guests to be designated by the Michigan Dept. of Transportation.