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The reason why Amtrak doesn't serve Dayton or Cedar City is because its routes have been drastically reduced from the early 1970s, to a bare bones structure. There used to be a train running from LA to Salt Lake City and a train running from Cleveland to Cincinnati....Basically Amtrak operates most of its long distance trains outside the NEC from Chicago, except for the Sunset Limited and and Coast Starlight. Even the Lake Shore Limited, Three Rivers, and the Capitol are based from Chicago. Why? To reduce operating costs...... But that air flight from Cedar City to Dayton took 9 hours. Add the additional two hours before leaving, and the hour waiting for luggage and grabbing a rental car, the flight actually took 12 hours..... Notice with a proper high speed rail network, the parralegram I have proposed, two legs could be traveled in that time.... some 1800 miles......not the 200-400 miles someone posted above...... We already have a high speed rail line in America that is 450 miles, it is called the NEC..... Here is a map I drew using a federal map showing population density. The four legs of my parralegram would include Philladelphia to Chicago, Chicago to Texas, Texas to Florida or Georgia, and DC to Florida/Georgia. There are more than four lines on my map, showing different possible routes. I am not very choosy, either would be a great start, eventually I would like to see the others completed at a later time..... The four legs is less than 4,000 miles, adding branches to Minneapolis, Toronto, to Miami, crossing the parallegram from Chicago to Atlanta, and adding the west coast lines would bring the total to 7,000 miles......Adding aa second line through the east, south, and midwest, and to Denver would bring the total to 11,000 miles. Add another 1,000 miles and one transcontinental line could be built, preferrably LA to Denver..... I am sure many of the forum members can find other lines that they would liked to be built.... But 12,000 miles is plenty.... Costs vary, but the average would probably run close to the Tampa to Orlando HSR in Florida, which is an average of $12 million per mile. Times 4,000 miles, the price of HSR is $48 billion, times 8,000 miles, the price of HSR is $96 billion, times 12,000 miles the price is $144 billion. The US DOT spends nearly $80 billion per year. I support a moratorium on federal airport and highway spending two years to build a HSR network the envy of the world. Afterwards, we won't need to spend so much on highways and airports..... http://homepage.mac.com/donclark/.Public/DonHSR.jpg
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