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Top at 110 mph, cruise at 85?? Good grief, that hasn't been "high speed" since the days of the GG-1! In the insult-to-injury column, I'm told the state of NC wants a second trunk line from Winston-Salem down to Charlotte (as anyone who has visited or lives there can tell you, I-77 is overcrowded). But between Mooresville and Statesville lies a community called, I think, Troutman. When that line was discontinued as a freight line, Troutman paved over that part of the RR within its town limits, I am told. Small problem: ownership of the ROW had not yet actually passed to the town! And to make things really weird, supposedly the town did not remove the tracks, just asphalted it over. Troutman doesn't strike me as an affluent enough community to entertain notions about no-growth. Such igorance of, and hostility to, passenger railroading to me is an "only in America" type of thing. Bet they wouldn't object to six-laning the Interstate!
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