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7/20/2025, 8:06:19 PM
>>2049126
>Sometimes high speed rail isn't worth it compared to slow trains.
I'm not even saying you can't have a high speed rail route between LA and SF eventually, but there has to be a transition where you're operating conventional trains but on an accelerated schedule to build up the infrastructure and customer-base, rather than just building the entire HSR network at once.
Say Phase I is getting Union Pacific to upgrade its track so you can run trains at 100 mph over enough of the route that you can reliably shave the travel time down to six hours, sponsor a bill to co-finance the venture in cooperation with Union Pacific and once it's done, restart the Coast Daylight as a service hauled by fast diesels, they could even buy up the remaining RTL-III Turboliners (assuming they're still operable) have been sitting in New York unused for the past few decades to operate them in the interim while newer rolling stock is being built.
Then, once you've got a well-established working relationship with UP and a decent customer base, you can move on to Phase II, electrification, sponsor another bill to co-finance the electrification of Union Pacific's coastal route and its acquisition of electric freight locomotives. Boom, you're already arguably over halfway to HSR.
>>2049110
>it would've turned the HSR into a scenic tourist attraction
They should be resurrecting the Coast Daylight name for that very reason. It was one of the most famous and beautiful trains in the world and still carries that brand recognition nearly half a century after it was discontinued.
>Sometimes high speed rail isn't worth it compared to slow trains.
I'm not even saying you can't have a high speed rail route between LA and SF eventually, but there has to be a transition where you're operating conventional trains but on an accelerated schedule to build up the infrastructure and customer-base, rather than just building the entire HSR network at once.
Say Phase I is getting Union Pacific to upgrade its track so you can run trains at 100 mph over enough of the route that you can reliably shave the travel time down to six hours, sponsor a bill to co-finance the venture in cooperation with Union Pacific and once it's done, restart the Coast Daylight as a service hauled by fast diesels, they could even buy up the remaining RTL-III Turboliners (assuming they're still operable) have been sitting in New York unused for the past few decades to operate them in the interim while newer rolling stock is being built.
Then, once you've got a well-established working relationship with UP and a decent customer base, you can move on to Phase II, electrification, sponsor another bill to co-finance the electrification of Union Pacific's coastal route and its acquisition of electric freight locomotives. Boom, you're already arguably over halfway to HSR.
>>2049110
>it would've turned the HSR into a scenic tourist attraction
They should be resurrecting the Coast Daylight name for that very reason. It was one of the most famous and beautiful trains in the world and still carries that brand recognition nearly half a century after it was discontinued.
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