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Here is an interesting cost vs benefits study of high speed passenger rail across America done by the Federal Railroad Administration at this web site. http://www.fra.dot.gov/Content3.asp?P=1172 It turns out that the best places to build new electrified HSR of 150 mph are in California between LA and San Francisco, the Texas triangle, and the extension of the NEC to Florida thru Atlanta. In the Midwest, Northeast, and along the southern Gulf coast it would be better to upgrade old tracks to 120 mph using either diesels and gas turbines instead. From what I concluded after reading all of these corridor plans, HSR will cost much less than what I thought..... less than $80 billion..... not $100 billion..... It seems the faster the trains go, the more benefits are generated....and of course the higher the costs. In zero cases did Maglev become desirable because of its higher costs. Therefore if we want HSR now, we should build electrified 150 mph trains.....
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