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High speed rail is a pipe dream for the USA. It is great in high population areas and countries with a different way of doing things than allowed here. Japan and Germany can run trains at high speed and they are always on time. In the USA Amtrak brags that they are on time as much as 72% of the time. So 3 out of 4 ain't bad, but it is sure not good.
And they require billions of dollars in subsidies every single year to stay in business, and they serve only high population areas. And they manage to kill passengers every year. US airlines are at about 0.2 deaths per 10 billion passenger-miles from 2000 to 2010.
Interesting and technical article. It ain't easy to go fast in a train.
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Glen
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1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
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