Word: pendular
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...Cascades, built for ultrahigh speeds, can do only 79 m.p.h. on existing tracks, but its pendular suspension means it doesn't have to slow down going around curves--of which this route has many. For much of the way, you skirt the shores of the lovely Willamette, Columbia and Toutle rivers. The view gets even more spectacular as you follow the coastline of the vast and misty Puget Sound. So close to the water do you ride that you often feel you're not on a train at all but on a boat, with blue water and skies...