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[QUOTE]Originally posted by George Harris: [QB] Most of the talk about high speed rail, maglev, other even more utopian schemes are the equivalent of the stage magician waving his arms around while the trap door opens. All these places just mentioned (Japan, German, France, et al) have huge investments and train miles running of everyday bread and butter trains banging off the miles at average speeds well within the range that Amtrak now runs. Every last one of these high speed services were built to provide better service on routes already having multiple trains per day. Yes, the demand jumped, but it was not from a zero base. These places are not running 1940's technology, and we are not doing so in the US either. If you think so, better read up on the 1940's. The big difference is that all these places began funding new equipment and track improvemetns on their existing services about the time that the private companies threw in teh towel in the US because they realized that the deck was hoplessly stacked against them, and our governments, on all levels ran around moaning and groaning rather than doing something about it. If this doesn't change, we might as will contact China and India and see if they want to make bids on our passenger equipment. George [/QB][/QUOTE]
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