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[quote user="Kevin C. Smith"][quote user="Safety Valve"] I keep thinking of the possibilties with the TGV here in the USA. They can probably run St. Louis to DC in 4 hours instead of 2 days by Greyhound bus or Amtrak.[/quote]Just playing with my calculator...300kph=187mph, plus some time to accelerate/decelerate at intermediate stopsChicago to:New York, 6 hours (PRR)Denver, 6.4 hours (CB&Q)Oakland (Emeryville), 16.5 hours (Amtrak CZ)New Orleans, 5 3/4 hoursLos Angeles, 14 hours (AT&SF) or 14.6 (RI-SP)Seattle, 14 1/4 hours (MILW-hey, a guy can dream, can't he?)LA-New Orleans (Sunset Limited), 12.4 hoursLA-Seattle (Coast Starlight), 8.7 hoursNow, these are totally meaningless in any real world scenario but intriguing in an armchair sort of way...might the greater distances in North America actually be more suited to HSR that the shorter distances in Europe? NY, Denver & NO would be a short day trip from Chicago. The Pacific Coast a long overnight (comparable to CHI-NYC in the 30's & 40's). Does that really compare so horribly with air travel for business or lesiure travel? (CHI-MSP in, say, 4-5 hours?) Well, as long as I'm dreaming, off to bed...[/quote]Here's where you can take the concept of HSR kicking and screaming out of the world of fantasy and into the realm of realistic possibilities - put yourself in the shoes of a UPS or FedEx exec and contemplate those running times you've just posted above....[bow]Moral of the story - you just gotta know who to sell it to!
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