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Originally Posted by jmecklenborg
Almost no major capital spending is necessary to achieve this aside from ordering the trains themselves.
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I will quibble with this... so long as freight railroads insist on running their trains on a loosey-goosey non-schedule, it will be impossible to run reliable passenger service without a lot of capital spending on 2nd track or at least passing sidings.
Even Brightline which is nominally under common management with FEC needed to double-track their mainline, even though they should theoretically be able to schedule their freights tightly around passenger service.
https://homesignalblog.wordpress.com...rail-capacity/
In theory all you need is for the Federal gov't to "get tough" with freight railroads, but this ignores the tremendous money they spend on lobbying.