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Don't get too excited just yet, but this story from the Washington Times is bound to make those of you who travel between D.C. and New York City on a regular basis salivate. The federal government plans to announce it is seeking contractors to build a new $30 billion to $40 billion high-speed rail line between Washington and New York that would be used exclusively by passenger trains. Now, Congress still has to vote to fund such a project, so this is clearly many, many years away. But if it does eventually happen, the bottom line would be that you could get from D.C. to NYC on Amtrak in under two hours. The very idea gives us goosebumps.

This DCist was in New York this weekend, and like anyone who frequents Amtrak's Northeast Corridor between Union Station in Washington, D.C., and Penn Station in Manhattan, we know the drill while waiting for trains. In Union Station, lines can snake down the concourse prior to boarding. At Penn Station, people in the waiting room stand patiently underneath the departure and arrival board for the track number to be announced, as classical music plays through the public address system elsewhere in the station. Then once the train is ready, a track announcement is made and there's a rush to the corresponding escalator to get to the front of the line. Then it's a mad dash to descend deeper into the bowels of the station and quick rush down the platform to secure seats. (If you're going to be taking a cab at Union Station, it's best to get to the front of the train at Penn Station so you can be among the first people to make their way through Union Station and to the front of the taxi queue.)

Good morning, Washington. This photo is from KimTheWolf who posted the shot of a bed of yellow daffodils near the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 25th Street NW in DCist Photos. Although temperatures will be pleasant approaching 70 degrees, Capital Weather says that for Sunday, temperatures will be "downright chilly" in the low 50s. Kansas Senator Warns D.C. to Watch Its Step: Sen. Sam Brownback, the Kansas Republican who chairs the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on...

That huge ad on the Post's website is hard to miss. Amtrak is celebrating the unveiling of its new website with lower fares. So if you're heading to New York anytime soon, or anywhere else for that matter on Amtrak (except South Dakota and Wyoming, they are the only lower 48 states without train service ... sorry Rapid City and Cody), you can get 10 percent off. But that's not on Acela or Metroliner, so...