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[quote user="henry6"] Ever drive NYC to CHI?  Why?  You're dead tired by the time you hit  Ohio and *** near dead by Gary, Indiana.  Wouldn't a train serve you better in Chicago than a two day sleep in the Windy City?  Seriously, though, NYS is working on HSR across the state.  HSR in this case meaning 100+ mph track in many areas most seperated from CSX freight traffic.  Higher than today's speeds are also being worked on in other areas.  PA is also doing well with Keystone projects west from Philadelphia.  Ohio we know has killed any such upgrading of track, so, yeah, you're probably right, there will be no real increase in attractiveness of LSL or any other train between Gotham and Chi.  However, if PA, OH, IN and IL were to take NY's lead and improve the route, it would be a viable route for more "service" as I define it and not just track for running trains.  Both the PRR and NYC did what, 16 hour or better service between the two cities.  If there were even four round trips a day on such routing, there might be a chance of marketable and usable service.  Especially if the east end of the routes were tied to NY's Empire Corridor or PA's Keystone services.  (I'd run one train Cleveland-Chicago, split  one via Water Level the other around the Horseshoe combining westbound.)  [/quote] A recent segment of Sixty Minutes featured a story on the dire financial condition of many of the nation's states.  At the top of the list is California.  Its bonds are rated just about junk status.  Following closely behind it is New York.  Its Lieutenant Governor said that he has been unable to do anything about the dire financial situation in New York.  It is facing massive deficits.   The federal government is deep in debt.  And it is likely to get worse.  Whether it will be able to help fund high speed rail is questionable.  So how will New York fund high speed rail?
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