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Originally Posted by Yuri

And Ohio is flat (at least where the tracks would run)

Correct, the Southeast third of the state is consistently hilly and thinly populated.

Terminal Tower's old station complex is physically blocked by the courthouse tower:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Th...6zL20vMDM4bWNw

Union Terminal's old platform concourse is physically blocked by the Lindner Family Omnimax Theater...the Lindners are also original Amtrak stockholders:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ci...g%2F11bc6d7dx1

It's a shame that a state struggling with relative decline on the past 50 years doesn't have more ambition.

The city fathers literally physically blocked future use of the two historic train stations.

The Omnimax Theater is especially egregious, as its timing absolutely coincided with the effort to block high speed rail in Ohio. Of course, disassembling the theater is nowhere on par with demolishing the Cleveland Federal Courthouse, but they'd have to go through the region's second-wealthiest family to make it happen.

Carl Lindner was one of the major buyers of Penn Central assets after its epic bankruptcy. He briefly came into possession of Grand Central in NYC, and was intimately involved in the formation of Amtrak. He's a big reason why Cincinnati has almost zero Amtrak service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lindner_Jr.