High speed rail in USA

It would nice to have high speed rail in Gulf Coast area and Texas.

Amtrak train is more slower when compare to car, from my area to Atlanta took 2 hours via driving but train took 4 hours and to New Orleans took 5 hours via driving and train took 7 hours.

It's cheaper to drive the car than ride on Amtrak train due low gas price, however high diesel price caused train to increase the rate for fare in past.
 
cheap way to build high speed trains had been tried and successful in NY in 1963, reaching 183MPH !!!

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just strap on those jets !!

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Grummer said:
cheap way to build high speed trains had been tried and successful in NY in 1963, reaching 183MPH !!!

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just strap on those jets !!

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It isn't. Too loud. Why it isn't in service today? It's not successful, period. :roll:
 
rockdrummer said:
That sucks.. nothing from coast to coast.
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Of course...it is NOT cheap to build high speed dedicated line for 3,000 miles...so it's not doable, best in metro area to metro area for up to 500 to 700 miles or so. It would cost so much and it will take forever to pay it off and become profitable.
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Did you actually read the whole thread? I had to copy and paste what I said the reason why you can't do coast to coast. USA is so huge. :)
 
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Why they are about crashing each other? It would be awful expensive to replace new trains.
 
sequoias said:
Yea....

This is one of my favorite HST which is a TGV Duplex

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Is it in France?

I'm interested about high speed rail that Amtrak has one in northeast US.

I have 1 year to left to start new life in DC due college, that's not far away from NYC and I'm forward to see high speed rail. :)
 
Foxrac said:
Is it in France?

I'm interested about high speed rail that Amtrak has one in northeast US.

I have 1 year to left to start new life in DC due college, that's not far away from NYC and I'm forward to see high speed rail. :)
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Yes, it's in France...they also have service between France to UK and France to Germany (TGV POS)

The Amtrak Aleca isn't really THAT fast because of the old infrastructure in Northeast. If they had dedicated high speed rail line then it would be much faster and seperated from the traffic. It only goes up to 150 mph for about 20 minutes between RI to Massachuetts, I think. Most of the time it goes up to 100-120 mph.
 
sequoias said:
Yes, it's in France...they also have service between France to UK and France to Germany (TGV POS)

The Amtrak Aleca isn't really THAT fast because of the old infrastructure in Northeast. If they had dedicated high speed rail line then it would be much faster and seperated from the traffic. It only goes up to 150 mph for about 20 minutes between RI to Massachuetts, I think. Most of the time it goes up to 100-120 mph.
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Oh really, why does they sticking with old infrastructure?

I found out about fare for Amtrak Aleca isn't cheap, it almost equal to airport fare for DC to NYC but less annoying security for train.
 
Foxrac said:
Oh really, why does they sticking with old infrastructure?

I found out about fare for Amtrak Aleca isn't cheap, it almost equal to airport fare for DC to NYC but less annoying security for train.
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Simply because they didn't want to build a dedicated rail line back then, plus there's a lot of homes in the area and it has to snake thru this and that. Imagine demolishing all those homes to build a dedicated one.
 
I would love to ride a fastest train from Massachusetts to NC for one hour. I don't like the flying that much.

The only problem is that the electric wires above the stick on the train to the towers are too dangerous. No matter what because of large amount of magnetic field which is not healthy to people. I am sure that there must be another way for a better technology without the harmful magnetic fields.

If you say that it is not a big deal, then fine with me, and there will be more people who will get a cancer from that problem. It's because we cannot see magnetic fields in the air. It is the same way for gas vapor in the air that we breathe everyday.
 
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