SOCIETE NACIONALE DE BAHN DES WEASELS. Michael Jennings reports, "In a great spirit of European non-cooperation, the French and Germans have each designed their own separate trains, the French TGV and the German ICE. These run on the same track gauge and with the same electrical voltage (25kV AC via overhead wires), but there are other incompatibilities. Early versions of the ICE were too heavy to run on the TGV tracks, and ICE trains can run on steeper gradient tracks than could TGV trains. Both trains are capable of also running on older rail lines, but simply not at speeds any higher than conventional trains." Hmph. Neither of those trains are up to North American crashworthiness standards anyway, and the Acela Express is capable of handling two different voltages and running on tracks that also support North American freight trains (hint: 100 cars plus, 125 short tons per car). Perhaps the Weasel Corridor could try these.