The Radar: Acela to Add Cars, Tremendous Time Lapses, Phone Home

• Amtrak's 2012 fiscal year budget includes a provision to add 40 more coach cars to the popular Acela Express trains. Twenty Acela train sets are already in existence, meaning two cars or 130 seats will be added to each line. If all goes according to plan, the additional cars will make their debut on the tracks in 2014. [Amtrak]

• Spend a day in Hong Kong or experience a New York minute right from your desk chair through these top time lapse videos submitted by Gizmodo readers to the blog's inaugural Video Challenge. [Gizmodo]
  

• It's easy to shoot an email or post a tweet, but sometimes mom wants to truly hear your voice when you're on the road. Don't keep her worried. Here are six ways to make cheap international calls home. [Matador]

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Photo: Acela Express at New Haven, Connecticut; courtesy of Amtrak

Source: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2011/02/wed-the-radar-tremendous-time.html

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