the 86 mile-an-hour acela train in the northeast corridor. so you re jumping from 86 miles an hour to 311 miles-an-hour. reporter: the department of transportation granted $27.3 million for maryland to assess the feasibility of the maglev train in the u.s. run between baltimore and washington, d.c. in 15 minutes. the plan is whole northeast corridor cutting down the commute from washington to new york to 60 minutes. a direct night is new york from nation s capitol is 9minutes. critics say the train is too expensive the service between baltimore and new york alone will cost $10 billion. they say shelling out now would provide huge economic benefits down the road. question about it. we have, we ll have to dig deep to do this, both public sector and private sector. there is, really no choice but to do that if we want to continue to see our economy growing in the future.