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    1. william‏ @nunrespector Feb 20

      I forgot about this. When I was bored in England, I created a little Great Lakes railroad network. Red is high speed. They tend to follow the path of the interstates because eminent domain would be a lot easier.pic.twitter.com/tsX6ZPH1GM

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    2. william‏ @nunrespector Feb 20

      @380kmh what think

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    3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Feb 20
      Replying to @nunrespector

      decent core network here, two thoughts though: - using interstate alignments may not be as easy wrt eminent domain as you think, and comes with other problems (ie may not be close to activity centers) - for such a large area, you would probably want a denser web of lines...

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    4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Feb 20
      Replying to @380kmh @nunrespector

      ...if you look at this sketch of railways active in 1918, you can see what I mean--a restored network would probably not be THIS dense, but could be somewhere between this and what you're proposingpic.twitter.com/RyliaDWPyC

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    5. william‏ @nunrespector Feb 20
      Replying to @380kmh

      Thanks for the feedback! The problem I see with such a dense network is the ridership. People from the very rural parts of the state RARELY travel into the cities. I don’t think it makes economic sense to have a station in every town of about 10k.

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      Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Feb 20
      Replying to @nunrespector

      More people travel from hinterlands into cities than between cities--although there are plenty of rural places in the midwest that aren't really in any city's hinterland

      9:26 AM - 20 Feb 2018
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        2. william‏ @nunrespector Feb 20
          Replying to @380kmh

          See, that makes sense. Chicago has the only decent metro system in the region, and even that one doesn’t even extend an hour outside the city

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        3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Feb 20
          Replying to @nunrespector

          Right--so, expanding the reach from Chicago and adding more routes into the city (and crosstown routes connecting its suburbs to each other) would probably bring lots of new riders. Doing the same for other cities in the Midwest would be great too, *then* connecting the cities

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        4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh Feb 20
          Replying to @380kmh @nunrespector

          Small towns which aren't near any city in particular would probably only get a station if they happened to be along a route which connected two larger destinations

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