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High Speed Rail proponents take note: THIS is the right way to develop a HSR project
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by futuremodal</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by piouslion</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by futuremodal</i> <br /><br />Question for Tom and LC: When the original transcons were built, did they indeed put their own money where their stated ambitions lay, or did they utilize some form of corporate welfare to incentivize the construction? <br />[/quote]Much lies hidden beneath those words, Why infect what is basicly a civil engineering question with economic and political opportunities with economic and political drivel to an engineering thread. I think you might not have enough to do with your time - PL <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />PL, do you know of any railroad projects that aren't being aided by the feds? <br /> <br />The question posed was why someone doesn't build a new railroad into an area where current profit margins suggest a supply/demand disequilibrium. Give me (or anyone else with vision and ambition) an equivalent package of federal aid analagous to the original land grants and lack of frivoulous lawsuits, and I (or anyone else with vision and ambition) would gladly build a new rail line into any area that shows profit potential. <br /> <br />Without that federal incentive package, nothing will get built by anyone anytime, no matter how much ca***hey are sitting on. <br />[/quote]I will hold with my original statement on on the matter of engineering and its challenges. If however you would also consider such things as the geography, allignment, grades, service possibilities, and the peacable effect of commerce between nations that otherwise may be fighting as a good discussion topics I feel that the forum may just be a more informed as well as a more interesting place from the point of view of railroad possibilities and not politics as usual. But again this is just an idea that I would hope you would find worthy of opinion not just of yourself but of others that read and participate here. For what its worth - PL
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