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To: tejek who wrote (358927)	11/16/2007 7:59:14 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573921

820 miles in 2 1/2 hours is 328 mph. There is no 820 mile train run in the world with that type of speed. TGV did hit 357 but with some modifications, and only on a test run. Not hauling passengers across hundreds of miles. The top speed on any regular run is more like 200 mph, and that's instantaneous tops speed not sustained speed over a while run. And most routes have an instantaneous tops speed of either 168mph or 186. The highest average speed between terminating stations for any regular service is 250 kph or less than 160 mph over a distance of 750 km (or about 465 miles). en.wikipedia.org Also its not just a matter of how fast you can get trains to go. Pour enough resources in to the effort and you can get some pretty amazing results. But how much total spending you will need per passenger mile. More high speed rail in certain situations probably does make sense but its hard to tell if the only way it ever happens is with massive subsidies.