Population around this Illinois railway line:
Chicago 2.7m
Joliet 150k
Dwight 4k
Pontiac 12k
Normal/Bloomington 130k
Lincoln 8k
Springfield 115k
Carlinville 6k
Alton 27k
St. Louis 310khttps://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1102705337046626305 …
Chicago-St. Louis is about 300mi/500km, which is the same as Amsterdam-Paris. Amsterdam 820k Rotterdam 625k Antwerp 520k Brussels 1.2m Paris 10m
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It’s hard to imagine the Chicago-St. Louis railway ever getting enough passengers to justify a high speed line given how few people seem to be living in that corridor
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