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I thought I have already said the equipment Amtrak operates other than the Acela and Cascade trains were obsolete. This might be a nautical term, but pay them off. TGV Thalys is the trainset to buy. They average over 160 mph. By golly, no need for an expensive long drugged out study. And, by the way, they are single deckers. Who is using old track. I want brand new high speed rail tracks, electrified too. It is unsafe to operate a train at 150 mph on tracks run by freight railroads. Do them a favor, and their dispatchers a favor, keep the passenger trains on dedicated track. No need to stop every 400 or so miles for thirty minutes to refuel.....Stopping to refuel for such a long length of time will kill the speed average. Load passengers at stations and depots, there will be fewer, in 3 to 5 minutes. No need to stop at every hick town. <br /> <br />I only been as far south as Jacksonville on the Silver Meteor. I know the Sunset Limited runs into Orlando, I don't know what the height restrictions are below Orlando, but I have read the problems lie in the area from Washington DC north to New York City, probably bridges and tunnels. But new track and single level cars should not be a problem.... <br /> <br />As I said before in other threads, $120 billion will build a 4,000 mile system, a parallegram east of the Rockies with a slash, and a line between Oakland and Los Angeles, which comes to the same figure DART is spending and what the Texas DOT Trans Texas Corrridor plans to spend on double tracked, electrified, high speed rail: about $20 million per mile. One might think this is expensive, but the Texas Turnpike Commission is spending $428 million for 5 miles of 6 lane turnpike.....Ahhhhh, the 6 lane turnpike comes to $85 and a half million per mile.....Weeeeee! <br /> <br />
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