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Erik, you could have taken an Amtrak trip from Atlanta to New Orleans on the Crescent, and from New Orleans to Lake Charles on the Sunset Limited....Then you could have ridden a bus to Fort Polk....around an hour away.... Yes, you would have had to probably spend a night in New Orleans, as the Sunset Limited leaves New Orleans before the Crescent arrives.... But spending a night in New Orleans isn't so bad, is it? <br /> <br />However it would be nice to have HSR in place, whereby you could have done the same in less than 6 hours? I doubt whether there will ever be a train stop at Fort Polk, but Lake Charles is another story.... <br /> <br />As most already know, I support a moratorium on federal highway and airport spending for two years, so that a 7,000 mile network of HSR can be built.... From the NEC to Chicago, Chicago to Dallas/Houston, Dallas/Houston to Atlanta, Atlanta to NEC, and to Miami.....Golly, that's only about 4,000 miles.....We have another 3,000 miles which could build a Chicago to Atlanta line, a Chicago to Minneapolis line, a Toledo to Detroit line connecting to the line from Chicago to the NEC, a New York City to Toronto and Montreal lines, plus the shortcut along the coast from Raleigh to Jacksonville..... with enough miles left over to build a HSR line from San Francisco or Oakland to LA....and maybe we could squeak a few more miles to San Diego.... <br /> <br />We won't miss the federal highway and airport spending those two years, as the HSR network will reduce demand on those items..... If anything, there will be a cry for more HSR lines.....such as a line from Louisville to Cincinnati to Columbus to Cleveland to Buffalo.....which could be extended to Memphis and Dallas..... <br /> <br />The most difficult of the lines would be through Pennsylvania, but I have my opinion on that on another thread...which is to build a grade up to 1,000 feet and then build bridges over the valleys as these mountains are not the Rockies by any means, with an occasional tunnel when necessary.....Once we get to Ohio, its mostly flat to get to Chicago.... <br /> <br /> <br />
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