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I guess the answer is to sell high speed rail as having benefit as military project like the interstate highway was.
Like we can have a million soldiers moved from east coast to west coast or vice versa or the borders in less than 6 hours type of thing,
That's not even remotely realistic. It takes a freight train about 5-7 days to travel from coast to coast. It takes a team driving a big rig about 3 days to make the same trip. The reason airplanes make it in hours is because they get to fly over that pesky thing thst slows down trains called mountains
China has successfully prototyped a 1000 km/h train, which is faster than commercial aircraft, and is researching the viability of trains moving up to 4000 km/h.
So, you are trusting something moving at near the speed of sound on rails? The first time that derails at speed, ugly won't even begin to describe the carnage