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Re: Laying tracks for high-speed rail in the U.S.
Author: WebDigger
Date: 03-13-2015 - 16:46
David Smith Wrote:
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> Explain to us again why in the 1930's railroads such as the Milwaukee was able to run 100mph passenger trains, using steam locomotion, on jointed rail and wood ties ..... or that in the 1940's the Pennsy T1 was rumored to have hit 125mph on some passenger runs to make up time, crossing roads and highways at grade ...
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> .... and all using private capital ...
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> .... yet today all HSR fanatics want the taxpayers to pay for very expensive stand-alone HSR operations which go from nowhere to nowhere using the long way around .....
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> Why? Just, why?
Post Office subsidy?
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> Explain to us again why in the 1930's railroads such as the Milwaukee was able to run 100mph passenger trains, using steam locomotion, on jointed rail and wood ties ..... or that in the 1940's the Pennsy T1 was rumored to have hit 125mph on some passenger runs to make up time, crossing roads and highways at grade ...
>
> .... and all using private capital ...
>
> .... yet today all HSR fanatics want the taxpayers to pay for very expensive stand-alone HSR operations which go from nowhere to nowhere using the long way around .....
>
> Why? Just, why?
Post Office subsidy?
Quote:In 1930, more than 10,000 trains were used to move the mail into every city, town, and village in the United States. Following passage of the Transportation Act of 1958, mail-carrying passenger trains declined rapidly. By 1965, only 190 trains carried mail; by 1970, the railroads carried virtually no First-Class Mail. [inventors.about.com]
