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<p>[quote user="243129"]</p> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">VOLKER LANDWEHR</div> <div class="quote-content">The German high-speed routes are 2,900 miles long. 1770 miles are rebuilt old existing lines upgraded to a max. speed of 125 mph or 143 mph. <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><em><strong>Newly built </strong></em></span>were<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><em><strong> 1130 mile, 350 miles of them to 155 mph standard, the balance to standards of 186 mph.</strong></em></span></div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>Are you telling me that of the 1,130miles of "newly built" railroad that no curves were eliminated?</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>What is so difficult to understand? Newly built means they were built on a new alignment. The were no curves eleminated, they were built with curves as wide as possible. On upgraded routes curve radii were enlarged and superelevation was increased were necessary.</p> <p>This was <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>not</strong></span> done when rebuilding track directly after WWII. The dates I gave before.</p> <p>You are great quoting incompletely even your own text. You wrote in the article:</p> <p><em>Comparison to the European and Japanese railway systems cannot be made. Europe and Japan were bombed into rubble as a result of World War II. With nothing in the way, the Marshall Plan and SCAP — with an eye on the future — rebuilt the railway systems as straight as practicable.</em></p> <p>Everybody here understood you as saying (limiting it to Germany), Germany had an advantage over the USA because our rail infrastructure was destroyed in WWII, we got help from the Marshall Plan and were able to rebuild the rail system as a high-speed system. And you meant it this way.</p> <p>And here you are completely wrong.</p> <p>We weren't even able to make our own decisions after WWII. We were ruled by the victorious powers until 1949 when the Federal Republic of Germany was established.</p> <p>We had a different advantage, German Railway was government owned. When the idea of high-speed trains was developed it was a political not an economical decision. The goal was to get people of the highways. As side effect rail got competetive to air travel on some relations reducing the number of domestic flights.</p> <p>The USA had the same chance but choose otherwise.<br />Regards, Volker</p>
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