HIGH SPEED RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE
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| The art of infrastructure |
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Building the US High Speed Rail network will be the great project of modern time
The infrastructure needs of this project are huge and include the construction of thousands of miles of new high grade track, signaling, and electrification, as well as hundreds of bridges, many miles of tunnels, hundreds of new train stations and numerous support facilities.
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| HSR Netherlands, new Paris to Amsterdam line |
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"Building a new system of high speed rail in America will be faster, cheaper, and easier than building more freeways or adding to an already over-burdened aviation system - and everybody stands to benefit." President Obama, April 16, 2009
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| HSR Taiwan |
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| HSR France |
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| High Speed 1 Section, UK |
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| Spain, Renfe |
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| HSR China |
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China is currently spending over $360 billion to build their new national high speed rail system
Spain is spending nearly $200 billion to build their new national high speed rail system
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| HSR France, 357mph |
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"There's no reason why Europe or China should have the fastest trains" -President Obama, January 27, 2010
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| France, SNCF train maintenance facility |
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| HSR France |
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| HSR Korea |
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| Paris Gare du Nord |
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| Los Angeles, California, HSR coming soon. (Photo source: NC3D) |
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| UK rail project construction video |
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| Monaco, South of France, TGV |
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| Click to view animated map |
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US HSR. Making it happen.
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