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Re: CA HSR Update
Author: No
Date: 08-20-2018 - 18:16
Commenter Wrote:
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> Just for comparison I thought I would check a
> route I have ridden many times, Frankfurt Airport
> to Cologne via Siegburg/Bonn. This is a distance
> of 94.4 miles with a maximum speed of 187 mph,
> although not on the entire route, and (usually)
> one stop in Siegburg/Bonn. The fastest non-stop is
> 49 minutes and the fastest with one stop is 56
> minutes. I may have missed a slightly faster train
> but that's the basics.
You're talking real HSR there, not running Amtrak conventional on the HSR tracks between Fresno and Bakersfield which was the question. Your previous comment provided the information needed for Amtrak, assuming that 125mph can be used throughout (e.g. not dropping onto BNSF for Bakersfield access) - about an hour and small change. If Real HSR as planned by CAHSR were using the Fresno-Bakersfield tracks, with no shared use of conventional tracks, it would accelerate up to about 220mph between stations, resulting in a nonstop time of about 1/2 hour and time with the Hanford-area stop of a bit more (say, 35-40 minutes).
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> Just for comparison I thought I would check a
> route I have ridden many times, Frankfurt Airport
> to Cologne via Siegburg/Bonn. This is a distance
> of 94.4 miles with a maximum speed of 187 mph,
> although not on the entire route, and (usually)
> one stop in Siegburg/Bonn. The fastest non-stop is
> 49 minutes and the fastest with one stop is 56
> minutes. I may have missed a slightly faster train
> but that's the basics.
You're talking real HSR there, not running Amtrak conventional on the HSR tracks between Fresno and Bakersfield which was the question. Your previous comment provided the information needed for Amtrak, assuming that 125mph can be used throughout (e.g. not dropping onto BNSF for Bakersfield access) - about an hour and small change. If Real HSR as planned by CAHSR were using the Fresno-Bakersfield tracks, with no shared use of conventional tracks, it would accelerate up to about 220mph between stations, resulting in a nonstop time of about 1/2 hour and time with the Hanford-area stop of a bit more (say, 35-40 minutes).
