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I still think HSR in North America is only feasible in certain corridors and between certain cities. Once these sections of HSR are well-used and prove succesful, then the plan of connecting the east and west coast can be looked at. Mr Snyder, notice how in your statement you said "one of these days there will be a train that will take passengers overnight to Moscow from London". Now for how many years had France already have the TGVs and for how many years did Germany have the ICE already? Exactly! You have to start from the ground up. High speed trains in Europs started between major cities (ie. Frankfurt - Munich, Berlin - Leipzig, Paris - Lyon, etc.). Then they expanded into "short" international serivce (Paris - Zurich, Brussels - Cologne, London - Paris, Amsterdam - Frankfurt, etc.). Now, with all these lines completely in tune and working in harmony with each other, maybe they can expand service to farther destinations, such as Moscow. That's what we have to do in North America. Start with serivices such as New York - DC, Toronto - Montreal, San Francisco - Los Angeles, Chicago - Detroit. Then we can expand and connect these lines so that the Atlantic and Pacific is connected. To start out building 3 parallel lines from east to west is just not very realistic. What if it's a failure? What if no one wants to ride it? What about all the money wasted? That's why you have to start small, then grow big. Just my 2 cents
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