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
I remember when Obama put aside the money for a rapid light rail system from Chicago to Minneapolis. And the loathsome then Governor of Wisconsin gave the money back, and blocked the project.
There was also an LA > Las Vegas > SF high speed rail approved, then out bid by Elong Tusks “hyper loop” that immediately went under as soon as the bid shifted to them. Leaving us, yet again, without any high speed rail.
So I need to correct this, California High-speed Rail is still under construction, and won’t go to Vegas. Elon Musk’s proposal delayed the project by years but didn’t shut it down. The first phase is expected to open in 2033
