High Speed Rail
High Speed Rail
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High Speed Rail
High Speed Rail
NORCA
NORCA
Concept A
Concept A
Imagine, walking up to Louisville's Belvedere station just before dinner on a Friday night. You enter the station, buy a ticket, and board a train. But this is no ordinary train, it is an overnight train to almost any faraway large city you can think of in the Midwest or Northeast, like St. Louis, Atlanta, Chicago, Pittsburg, Washington DC, or New York. This is the idea behind the overnight service on the new Louisville&Cincinnatti high speed network.
The overnight service would offer complimentary dinner and breakfast, offer generous bedrooms, a communal lounge, multiple full service bathrooms shared among those sleeping in your same car, accompanied by individual powder room facilities within your bedroom. The train would leave between 5:00 and 6:00, just before dinner, and arrive between 8:00 and 9:00, just after breakfast, no matter the distance.
The best part? No hotel needed. Travelling while you sleep is hardly travelling at all, go to sleep in one place, and wake up in another, experience the new city and do the same the other way-- effortless.
For a nearly parallel European startup, see midnight-trains.com.(regulatory issue caused this to fail, will do a page on it soon)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Trains
Concept B
Concept B
Fast, frequent trains, during the day, to other places.
NORCA (Northern Ohio River County Alliance) is a potential alliance of counties with similar culture, history, and ideas. If these counties work together, they could draw investment and opportunity to the region. This alliance would tip off with the Louisville and Cincinnati High Speed Railway.
The Lines
The Lines
Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, and Pittsburg (and perhaps more) Line
Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, and Pittsburg (and perhaps more) Line
Nashville, Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, University of Louisville, Louisville, Norton Commons, LaGrange, Carrollton, Cincinnati, Madisonville, Middletown, Dayton, Springfield, London, Columbus¹, Columbus Airport, Newark, Pittsburgh Airport, and Pittsburg, McKeesport, Greensburg, Latrobe, Johnstown, Bedford, Hagerstown, Leesburg, Dulles Airport,² Alexandria, Washington, Baltimore Airport, Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Trenton, Newark, New York, Stamford, New Haven, Providence, Boston.
Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville, Louisville, Indianapolis, and St. Louis Line
Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville, Louisville, Indianapolis, and St. Louis Line
Peachtree City, Atlanta, Marietta, Dalton, Chattanooga, Manchester, Murfreesboro, Smyrna, Nashville Airport, Nashville, Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, University of Louisville, Louisville, Norton Commons, LaGrange, Madison, North Vernon, Shelbyville, Indianapolis, Plainfield, Terre Haute, and St. Louis
Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville, Louisville, Indianapolis, and Chicago Line
Atlanta, Chattanooga, Nashville, Louisville, Indianapolis, and Chicago Line
Peachtree City, Atlanta, Marietta, Dalton, Chattanooga, Manchester, Murfreesboro, Smyrna, Nashville Airport, Nashville, Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, University of Louisville, Louisville, Norton Commons, LaGrange, Frankfort, and Chicago³
1 Cincinnati to Columbus portion of this line would ideally be partially funded by the Ohio government, in exchange for the construction of trackage rights on two tracks to be constructed for their exclusive use along the right of way.
2 Pittsburgh to Alexandria portion of the line is to be nearly fully tunneled and federally funded.
3 The Indianapolis to Chicago portion of this line would be federally funded, as outlined by hsrail.org
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