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.