CE Wrote:
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> Seriously, given that HSR is relatively new to the USoA
> (not to mention railroad engineering in general), why would any CE have experience in this
> area.
Say what? Did you
really just say that "railroad engineering in general" is "relatively new to the USoA"?
How did the transcontinental railroads get built, more than 100 years ago?
John F. Stevens (Stevens Pass in Washington is named in his honor) is just one of many early railroad engineers (the construction kind, not the operating kind.)
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