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Hate to burst your railfan bubble, but 300 miles is the effective range for HSR. Do you know of any 500+ mile routes in Europe or Japan? The enormous expense of building TGV-type ROW csn not be justified through thinly populated rural areas. With NIMBY opposition, even 300 mile TGV corridors are going to be darn near impossible to implement. As a result, an evolutionary approach to HSR is what's going to happen in this country, and funding for this is scarce. No sense in doing any more day dreaming. Like it of not, there is a role for the airplane: travel markets of 400 miles plus. Amtrak's Dallas-Chicago fare reflects the trade-off of the longer trip time. HSR will command a premium a la Acela. Six trainsets working Chicago-St.Louis can make more round trips and would not have the airplane for competition. Direct NY-Atlanta flights (the kind the most people choose) can do the trip in three hours max. Let Amtrak be abolished and an organizational off-shoot of Metra run the Midwest hub, with similar such groups for the Northeast, California, Texas, Florida, and the Piedmont corridor of Georgia-North Carolina. The freight railroads or cruise-type frims (AOE or Montana Daylight) should run the long-haul inter-regional autoveyer trains.
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