Editing Rhode Island (section)

===Rail===
[[File:Southbound_Northeast_Regional_at_Kingston_station,_May_2017.JPG|alt=A southbound Northeast Regional train stopped at Kingston Station|thumb|A southbound [[Northeast Regional]] train at [[Kingston station (Rhode Island)|Kingston Station]]]]
{{See also|List of Rhode Island railroads}}
The [[MBTA Commuter Rail]]'s [[Providence/Stoughton Line]] links Providence and [[T. F. Green Airport]] with Boston's [[South Station]], with an intermediate stop at [[Pawtucket/Central Falls]] and several stations in Massachusetts. The line was later extended southward to [[Wickford Junction (MBTA station)|Wickford Junction]], with service beginning April 23, 2012. The state hopes to extend the MBTA line to [[Kingston Railroad Station (Rhode Island)|Kingston]] and [[Westerly (Amtrak station)|Westerly]], as well as explore the possibility of extending Connecticut's [[Shore Line East]] to T.F. Green Airport.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dot.state.ri.us/intermod/index.asp |title=State of Rhode Island: Department of Transportation: Intermodal Planning |publisher=Dot.state.ri.us |date=October 27, 2010 |access-date=January 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117053439/http://www.dot.state.ri.us/intermod/index.asp |archive-date=January 17, 2013}}</ref> Amtrak's [[Acela Express]] stops at [[Providence Station]] (the only Acela stop in Rhode Island), linking Providence to other cities in the [[Northeast Corridor]]. Amtrak's [[Northeast Regional]] service makes stops at [[Providence Station]], [[Kingston Railroad Station (Rhode Island)|Kingston]], and [[Westerly (Amtrak station)|Westerly]]. 

Rhode Island is one of four states to have high-speed [[Northeast Corridor]] tracks capable of 165 mph. This was due to the fact that in the 1990s, Amtrak upgraded the NEC north of New Haven, CT to get it ready for the high-speed ''[[Acela Express]]'' trains and to extend electrified [[Northeast Corridor]] services to Boston.<ref>{{cite web |title=Building the Infrastructure for Acela Express |url=https://history.amtrak.com/blogs/blog/building-the-infrastructure-for-acela-express |website=history.amtrak.com |publisher=Amtrak |access-date=April 28, 2020 |date=February 25, 2016 |archive-date=July 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727021017/https://history.amtrak.com/blogs/blog/building-the-infrastructure-for-acela-express |url-status=dead }}</ref>