This is a distance of roughly 625 miles and we are going to assume that the speed does not include the time penalty of Spain having a different Rail Gauge than France.
At 890 miles of rail you can get New York to Chicago which would be the ideal first route, but what can you get with 625 miles that makes more since than Columbus?
Well at that distance you can get Raleigh-DC-Philadelphia-NYC- Boston
With intermediate stops in Richmond, Baltimore, New Haven, and Providence
That is a route that is not only good, but has potential to be one of the most used rail lines in the world if it were at high speeds and a cheap price
How about putting some more rails, especially high speed, out here in the midwest, so those of us stuck out here can travel without hours in a car or spending hundreds on a plane ticket?
I guess another route of equivalent length would be St.Paul-Madison-Milwaukee-Chicago- -Indianapolis-louisville
@amtrak-official is doing good stuff promoting trains but it’s always northern cities. I live in Alabama and I want trains too! I wanna go to the aquarium in Tennessee, I want a fast and easy way to get to Gulf Shores. I want the Grand Canyon, Disney World Florida, Myrtle Beach! I wanna ride a train for less than two hours just to get Starbucks at Rock City
I could do Chattanooga-Atlanta-Montgomery-Mobile -New Orleans within roughly 650 miles of track
