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I checked Amtrak site for the price of a single adult ticket to Chicago from Dallas, its $137 one way coach, or $274 round trip coach. Distance some 930 miles. I checked American Airlines site for the price of a single adult ticket to Chicago from Dallas, its $262.50 one way coach, or $525 round trip coach. Mind you, I checked the cheapest fare, and there is a stop inbetween, too many potential cities to bother with. The flight to the destination is 5 and a half hours. A high speed trainset, TGV Thalys, on designated high speed rails, can beat this price and time......More than likely Amtrak would be able to increase the prices on its tickets, matching this price to an airline ticket. It seems today Amtrak charges about half the price of an airline ticket, coach. Who says Amtrak would not be able to steal customers from the airlines? I have done one scenario, others can do the same for other scenarios. How about Dallas to Atlanta for example. Alexander, $60 is a wee bit cheap! If you doubled this price to $120, you would not need 76 cars, would you. If the speed of the train was able to beat a non nonstop airliner, you could charge $240. Now we are down to 18 cars. Since high speed rail will use half the energy of an airliner if not less, and have a crew consisting of an engineer, a conductor, and a bartender, we can reduce this down to 9 cars.....TGV Thalys have 8 cars, some of the trains are doubled and have 16 cars.......Profit beyond your dreams of avarice.....
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