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The Bureau of Engraving and Printing tour is a reasonably fun way to spend an hour and a half.
Take the Acela to Baltimore and sigh that it's the closest thing to HSR America can offer. There's a nice aquarium there, or a well-renowned railway museum if you want to keep the theme. At the time I went (2016) the Acela fare was like 3x the standard Amtrak fare, and I think there might even be cheaper commuter-rail options.
There's a fiddly little island (Theodore Roosevelt Island) in the Potomac which would make for a nice hike, I recall it being conparatively deserted when I went.
The B&O is probably the best train museum ever, best I've been to for sure.
Also Baltimore just has a lot of cool spots. Go to Fells Point if you're there, really cool old dockworkers neighborhood with a lot of cool bars and stuff.
MARC train
Those trains to Baltimore supposedly reach 125mph so you are doing pretty good on speed too.