TRAINS

I was thinking about trains this morning. I still think it is an insult to civilized living that we have to take planes or drive our cars so much. I was reading about the high speed rail network in Europe, how it's expanding yet again into more of Spain and Italy.

In my ideal train dream world we'd have (at least for stage 1) the following routes:
BOS->NYC->PHL->BAL->WDC (to points south in stage 2)

maybe NYC->Montreal, NYC->Buffalo->Toronto, DET->Toronto, Buffalo->PIT->CLE->DET->CHI, CHI->Milwaukee->Madison->Minneapolis ...

I don't know how you'd hookup Indianapolis, Cincinnati to St. Louis but definitely CHI to St. Louis.

Maybe DC->Raleigh->Charlotte->ATL, ATL->New Orleans->Texas and definitely hookup
SF->LA->SD and maybe LV->LA and PHX->SD and maybe hookup the California routes with Portland and Seattle into Vancouver.