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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Modelcar</i> <br /><br />...I'm simply suggesting of use of existing rail routes {at least the ROW's}, where possible...and that might be available at the time construction might become reality as opposed to trying to create a "new" route...and as MC suggests above....very difficult to do for obvious reasons. I wonder if "it" will ever be accomplished but it's nice to think of a "new" high speed system for our 21st century to move people rapidly across the country side. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />It's a mixed bag, the way I see it... <br /> <br />On the one hand, putting hsr into existing corridors sure seems to make sense. But, it also seems like whopping liability comes with that. <br /> <br />If you have 180 mph trains zipping along side lumbering freights and meandering locals making numerous set outs, How long till some high cube box car derails and tips over in front of the passenger train? <br /> <br />When it finally does, i think that whatever safety record accumulated up to that point will matter for naught,..because what will happen is some lawyer representing the plaintiffs will be squawking about how the HSR line was located adjacent to the freight <i>to save the operator money</i>,..etc funny how lawyers have such a knack for associating their clients hardships with other people's money, isn't it? <br /> <br />Personally, I think that the greater potential is in rebuilding abandoned corridors, maybe by tieing in certain stips to freight railroads requests for abandonments, that enough line be included to "make sense" in terms of stitching together a HSR network. <br /> <br />If such a plan ever did get off the ground, some of the short lines that have gobbled up secondary ROW's with strategic value, could cash in selling the portion of their plant that connects the right dots. (JMHO)
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