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Keith: <br /> <br />If you mean HSR, as in, TRUE HSR, then, yeah, that is a major problem! Dear me I don't know, and it'll be a no win situation for whoever decides. <br /> <br />Hopefully the routes could make use of existing row which are below capacity, and could be rebuilt as dedicated HSR track. Another option is to run them in freeway corridors, which might work, but since the track would have to be elevated, it could get spendy real fast. <br /> <br />For the intial "Higher" speed rail- (MSR=Medium Speed Rail???) the exisitin track and terminals could be used. After all, many locations handled way more trains than they do today. <br /> <br />But there is another example of civic shortsightedness for you. In Portland, the Union Station yard got pared down to 5 tracks, and the remaining area, rather than being kept open for future service expansions, was built over for a low cost housing project. Stupid, stupid, stupid!!!!! <br /> <br />Best, <br />Alexander
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