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To: TimF who wrote (357066)	11/5/2007 3:19:14 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574404

The problem is the track in the middle part of the country is the worst in the system and trains are forced to go at speeds less than 50 mph over long sections. That's a problem, but far from the only one. Very long distance train travel (say over a thousand miles, maybe even less) doesn't work very well in the US. It would work better with higher speed rail, but you also have to consider the costs of extra or improved track, and more track maintenance. Its never likely to be an economic success unless the economics and technology of the whole situation changes in a big way. Its not just "give Amtrak more subsidies and everything will be fine". I envision regional nodes for the trains centered on certain cities like....Chicago Dallas, Atlanta, LA, etc. Transcontinental trains will still exist but the major traffic movers would be within the nodes.