henry6 But doesn't talk of this project surface every ten or so years and has since 1900?
But doesn't talk of this project surface every ten or so years and has since 1900?
It came up in 1967: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061387/
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
another link
http://qz.com/208119/china-is-reportedly-thinking-about-building-a-bullet-train-that-reaches-america/#/h/67921,1/
If China really wants to do a first class job, they'll build directly to the "lower 48" and bypass Canada completely.
Some fear that the newly enlarged Panama Canal may take some of the China- US East Coast business away from US Transcon railroads, to an all water route. It's hard to see how an all rail route around the the top of the Pacific would be competitive..
billio If China really wants to do a first class job, they'll build directly to the "lower 48" and bypass Canada completely.
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
The idea would be more practical if coupled with development of resources along the route. What minerals and ofher products can be obtained from what is now wilderness? Ports, temporary or permanent, coujld be developed to unload supplies during the summer months when navigation is possible.
There is a lot of metal ore and wood in the section of Canada and Eastern Alaska that the line would pass through, I'm not sure if there is much else.
China has a real appitite for metal ore.
Lyndon Larouche must be hiding out in china these days.
Just to add a liittle perspective, here's how the subject is being discussed at a general-interest forum which I tend to hold in higher regardthan most of its kind; note the immediate description of the project as "High Speed Rail" and the assumption of passenger capability by most of the posters.
http://www.city-data.com/forum/current-events/2114340-china-considers-high-speed-rail-canada.html
The revival of an industry which (at least by private-sector standards) was on the verge of nationalization in the early Seventies is an event those of us partial toward the industry and familiar with its technology have to regard as the greatest success within"our time", but the public, and the politicians who seldom plan beyond the next election, clearly have a lot to learn.
Convicted One Lyndon Larouche must be hiding out in china these days.
Good one...
That guy has some pretty far out ideas, though he does have an occasional useful insight. Saw one of his infomercials late '78 or early '79, one of his comments was that India would become a major technical power.
- Erik
Phoebe Vet henry6 But doesn't talk of this project surface every ten or so years and has since 1900? It came up in 1967: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061387/
C&NW, CA&E, MILW, CGW and IC fan
schlimm Phoebe Vet henry6 But doesn't talk of this project surface every ten or so years and has since 1900? It came up in 1967: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061387/ The Channel ("Chunnel") Tunnel idea started out as a fantasy in Napoleon's time (1802) and finally was completed in 1994. It serves freight and HSR and auto trains.
But it wasn't as ambitious as the tunnel in that movie.
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