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I am sure that is just a tiny sample of all the companies hoping to cash in on the hundreds of billions that rail enthusiasts want the government to spend on their high-speed toys.
I am a railfan. I love “train pornography,” and will snap pictures of trains when I can. Unlike my friend the Antiplanner, I am not involved with steam locomotives, even though I find them fascinating machines.
Given the opportunity, I enjoy a ride on a train.
But none of the above justifies the spending of billions of tax dollars on high-speed (or, as the Antiplanner has said previously, medium-speed) rail networks.
The one train line in the United States that comes close to high-speed rail, Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, loses buckets of taxpayer money every year. How much more money (in operating losses) would more high-speed trains cost us?
Yet how many roads are being judged on a profit or loss basis for their existance?
Regarding Highwayman’s comment: Sunk costs are sunk. Any future roads or railways should be closely judged on a cost/benefit analysis.
Andy, that’s kind of after the fact, at one time there were about 200 miles of tram line in Portland OR, now that was a lot of sunk infrastructre.
As for the nation wise there is 100,000+ miles of rail line missing.
It’s a double standard, most rail infrastructure in the USA is privately owned yet you guys bash it.
To Highwayman,
I have to admit I don’t understand what you mean when you say that 100,000 miles of rail line is missing. I stole some rail spikes once, but I can’t see how miles of rail can disappear. I suspect you have a larger point to make. Can you please explain?
For the most part rail infrastructre is judged on a profit or loss basis, if it doesn’t make money it gets cut up for scrap metal and that’s a problem compared to roads that are pretty much sacrosanct.
I still don’t understand your point. Do you mean that rail iron is worth enough to pick it up, and there is no profit in digging up asphalt? What difference would it make if there was 100,000 miles of decrepit, unmaintained rail lines around the country?
If there were still an extra 100,000+ miles of unused rail lines around the US today it would mean a lot less political fighting.