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Overmod, <br /> <br />Thanks (?) for confirming my suspicion of the 79 mph max being an arbitrarily construed relic from the 1920's, although I do get the critisism. Understand that I was using it as an example of why FRA control over a stand alone double wide gauge may not be in the best interests of the new technology or the nation's economy. Think of it in this vein, perhaps as the same reasons why federal regulation of the internet would stiffle it's "natural" growth. Frankly, if the FRA used the same rules and regs for broad gauge as standard gauge, it would take away all the advantages of using the wider gauge. What good is the wider gauge if the FRA limits clearances to 20'2" or limits gross car weight to 286k? How would the FRA go about developing new regs for broad gauge without raw operational data to go by in the first place? Trust me, new technologies need the freedom to develop for at least a few decades before the regulators step in, if indeed their "participation" is warranted in the first place. <br /> <br />As an aside, would the FRA have juristiction over mag-lev?
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