Amtrak has updated its long term plan to bring European-like high-speed rail to the Northeast Corridor. Upgrading Acela from sort of high-speed rail to really high-speed rail would cost $151 billion through 2040. For that investment, we’d get a 220-mph train that would deliver riders from Washington to New York in 94 minutes.

For more details, check out Amtrak’s 42-page vision plan (pdf). In the mean time, imagine stepping on to the platform at Union Station and seeing one of these: