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I just realized what those from-the-air (or satellite) pics of US cities remind me of: they remind me of the bombed-out German cities after WW II, most of the area looking like a wasteland, not like a city. (I'm not claiming anything beyond that's an association I have when I look at them.)

Many stops for HSR. But I guess build it right with passing tracks at (some of) the smaller stations and do build the extra ones you showed, then you could have a line with Expresses going between the major stations and regionals doing all-stopping services. All able to go the same high top speed. Similar to Acela and the Northeast Regional. Make the stations well connected locally, and allow the surrounding blocks to actually develop, and bam! Texas is a place where the train going every half hour along this spine just goes without saying for everyone.

Imagine OKC to Fort Worth within a hour or less

This is never going to happen. The people in these parts of the country are too greedy and stupid to pull this off. California High-Speed Rail will barely occur in the San Joaquin Valley, and that's with a culture that's far more pro-public infrastructure projects.

Never happen. No way would those VA towns like Ashland they will not want overhead lines.

a yearly maintenance cost estimate would be super useful as well, then you could estimate viability of such things at the end of your videos.

Stu, loving the video so far, great stuff as always, but I seriously have to pause at OKC so I can push back on the thought of skipping Denton as a stop and using Gainesville instead. As you mentioned, Amtrak already serves Gainesville, but Denton is not served. Additionally, Denton has the A-Train, a light commuter rail that goes along I-35E to the Trinity Mills Station for DART and potential future additions, adding more connectivity/ beneficial redundancy. Finally, Denton is home to the University of North Texas, which - generally speaking - has a student body (~47,000) that would fervently support and use rail connections of this sort. Obviously the video is already made, but if you ever came back to re-examine this….. if you were ever invited to a panel to discuss proposals (a la Ray Delahanty from City Nerd) then I would urge you to consider Denton more strongly.

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you made a bobo stew san antiono has a sububan rail line from downtown to the northwestern suburb of leander.

I know it’s in Canada but I’d love to see a video about the Windsor to Quebec City corridor. It’s comparable in size and population to the Northeast Corridor and it should have high speed rail

kileen has a huge military base just west of it so it realy dose need a regional station maybe kinda between killeen and gtemple.

why not under austin airport,

how much bigger then texarkana is tulsa and way dose it go east to tulsa and not north to wichita. and probably kansas vity is a much more logical hsr line the kansas city - denver is.

Trains in Texas are a "Hard Fail!"

I think it's an interesting note that you've dealt with the issue of the Del Rio sub out of SP Sunset going east instead of north by just rebuilding the turnout with Austin ML 2 at the end of East Yard. As the tree lines might imply, one kind of used to exist, but it was a small transfer between the SP and MKT sides of Fort Sam Houston's formerly quite extensive rail system. The Texas Eagle actually reverses for several miles out of the station to get on Austin ML 1 this reason. Other rail proposals such as the infamous Lone Star Rail have always used the old MP station on the other side of downtown on Austin ML 1, which has the distinct advantage of actually going northbound. The station and its former yard are also already owned by Via transit, but of course Sunset is more ideal just for its location.

8:25 it is just too funny how you say all these german names. 😂😂 Braunfels means Brown rock 🪨. And Schlitterbahn means slipping track.

I strongly agree that this HSR should begin at Eugene! Thank You! The Eugene/Springfield population is much bigger than 400k with all the nearby smaller towns and relatively dense expanded rural housing. It would also be a good commuter extension from/to Salem and Portland.

Have you considered doing a concept for extension of Brightline West from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City in time for the 2034 Winter Olympics, using the Rio Grande Plan as the Salt Lake City terminus?

Those surface parking lots in Fort Worth were recently announced to be turned into new Texas A&M University buildings that are at least 7 stories tall. But there is an under utilized building near Fort Worth Central station that could combine with the next door Ashton Depot (a former rail station) to make an awesome dedicated HRS station if you dont want to use Fort Worth Central Station

why not run it through the undeveopled hills of san antonio and run through the median of s1 while rerouting the frieght line in between it.

I don’t understand why Amtrak can’t implement this, sure funding is always an issue when it comes to high-speed rail in America. But at this point I’m pretty sure Amtrak has the money for this. Idk man, I’m I’m pretty much feeling what that guy at the end of this video. Just Watching your videos LucidStew just makes you feel like Amtrak should be implementing these routes now! Sending love to the amount of work you put into these videos!!👏👏

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Given that Texas can't keep the lights on, perhaps the trains should be 160 MPH gas-turbines, bet you could push that to 180 MPH. Skipping Austin seems fine with light rail transit connection, HSR in East Asia often skips city centers in favor of big suburban stations that can anchor new business districts. These cities have high growth rates, so they are similar to China in that regard.

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Another potential extension could be from Oklahoma City or Tulsa to Wichita Kansas.

Haha missed opportunity for “Nawrth of Fawrt Wawrth” 😉

Don't forget to add Georgetown and Denton as potential stops for this line.

Honestly, Lucid, there’s an option that hasn’t been investigated because the railroad is abandoned Rock Island. The route starts at Tucumcari, NM and follows I-40 through Oklahoma City and onto Tulsa the route also continues to Little Rock, AR, and could eventually connect to Nashville, TN. The route was abandoned in 1980 and has had many attempts at rebuilding service between NM, OK, AR, and TN. By buying an abandoned right-of-way it would cost more initially, but it could be electrified as there are power plants in OK and AR. Also buy building the service through mostly abandoned North Texas and central OK, since it already sees Amtrak Service it could be upgraded as time and money allow.

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So you're skipping Denton,Texas? It's home to the University of North Texas, Texas Women's University, and the historically Black Texas College. You usually love to add college ridership to your proposed high speed rail lines.

Considering the population growth patterns this should be one of the top priority projects in the nation, if it weren't constrained by GOP thinking that is... But these cities are increasingly Blue which will lead to more of a priority for public transit projects of all kinds I am sure...

We don’t need stops at airports unless they also stop in downtown.

19:02 my house is on the left side of I-35 right next to the highway.. but just out of frame, I lived 🥳

One idea is to have stops on the edges of cities, so people do no have to backtrack from a single hub.

Can you do a video like this about Nashville/Middle Tennessee area. I think you mentioned about Nashville in your Chicago Hub video.

Once you finish covering all of the different corridors are you going to make a video that shows the entire US network and ways to connect different corridors to one another?

Coming from a Carolina resident (specifically SC), the Greenfield route makes more sense to me, with some exceptions. A Gastonia, NC stop is definitely a choice, but I guess it makes sense. Anderson, SC is also definitely another choice, but I can see why they'd want to connect it up. The west half of South Carolina has been expanding a lot more than the east half. Most SC residents, in my experience and from others I've spoken with, try to avoid Columbia, SC because it really is just a horrible city. It also gives the possibility of connecting up to Asheville, NC as that is also a rapidly growing city in NC. There could definitely be some improvements to the Greenfield route in where it goes and such. However, I think that the route would be highly beneficial to all states and regions. SC is definitely going to be the problem child as it is very prideful of being very rural. I think the route going the way it is acts as a way to appeal to the state and get it on board for the project. Sentiment for HSR is definitely growing in the state, though. Hopefully the creation of jobs for the state will help get it on board completely

I'd be interested to see what a HSR from El Paso north to Alburquerque then to Denver, Cheyenne, Casper up to Billings Montana would look like. Long and costly and while the populations are small maybe this could go a long way to make these places not so remote.

It would better for Oklahoma to have a rail system that connects a port in Houston, so they can get goods or oil/gas on a container ship.

I actually favor this combined slightly with a modified Texas Central for Texas/Oklahoma. Dallas to Waco to College Station, then 1 branch to Austin Airport/SAT and another branch to Houston. That would be a good chunk of greenfield though, so I applaud the effort to stick to existing rights of way.

Great work as always! Good job making I-35 work from AUS to SAT. I gave up and made a bypass using Hwy 183/Pickle Pkwy which is has a median. For downtown Austin, I would use Mopac expy and build a viaduct over the freight tracks. They did the exact same thing with I-35 through Austin!

Is the problem with Austin the curve as you get to the current amtrak station? because it looks on google and open railways map that the right of way is 75ish feet enough for 4 tracks and UP is single track there. I'd say getting to the urban core of such a large city is too important, to blow off with a stop next to the airport and putting in a 7 mile tunnel would be worth it. Pop back into the UP right of way around the West 35th street interchange.

There needs to be more investment in local mass transit. The fact that San Antonio is expected to surpass Philly in population yet lacks even a single light rail line to connect downtown to any other part of the city or metro. It'd be GREAT is a student in San Marcos can spend a Sunday on the Riverwalk, but what if they want to visit relatives in a suburb? This is something missing form these high speed rail plans. Acela works well because each station is served by extensive bus. subway and regional rail service. DC, Baltimore, Philly, NYC, and Boston all have subways that make their Amtrak stations super useful for those who want to get to the suburbs from downtown.

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Great video as always. Loved the inclusion of a "local" HST and a sprinter/express HST

That freight spur in new Braunfels is already getting closed down and redeveloped. This is such a good video for someone that’s from new Braunfels that now lives in Austin.

25:15 do you have a slide with cost estimates per segment? ie San Ant-Austin, Austin DFW, DFW OKC, OKC-Tulsa?

the okc-tulsa section would be so popular even if it was only bi-hourly

Love these “could be “ videos! Would be amazing to have HSR in the US.

I from Kansas, wichita state university. I am now in California.