Originally Posted by
Spin
A train on 1000+ mile run doesn't make any sense. It is most efficient on 200 to 400 mile runs between highly populated city pairs.
Not according to certain politicians
I agree there's a hypothetical niche for it in the US in a few high-density areas. But good luck seizing all of that land and evicting people from their homes to make way for the infrastructure.. that is simply NOT happening in the US today, people are way too entitled and the system coddles them. It's a real biatch just to build something on land you ALREADY own... You'd need a really big paradigm shift (like a small nuclear war or a massive and sustained economic depression that would shame the Great Depression).