(December 19, 2017 at 5:34 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: It seems that a "D" engineer laid out the railroad tracks with the hairpin curves that require the trains to slow to a crawl in order to keep from flying off the rails. You might as well take an old stage coach instead of a train if it can't exceed 30 mph.
1. Stage coaches can’t do 30 Miles an hour, if you find one that can, put me in your will and go take it.
2. Most of this route is rated for 79 mph, this turn is rated for 30 mph
3. In case you haven’t noticed, trains have narrow tracks and high centers of gravity, and can’t handle sharp turns and also can’t handle any significant gradient. So unless a country is enlightened enough to see the public merits of true high speed passenger rail and willing to make the investment to buy the rights of way to lay dedicated high speed tracks, there is usually no alternative given the local terrain and existing rights of way to having curves along a rail route that requires the train to slow down from time to time.
4. You live in a country that, even before it jumped off the deep end by installing trump, never even came close to being enlightened enough to appreciate the public merits of true high speed passenger rail to contemplate investing a mile of dedicated track for it, unlike virtually any other developed country.
