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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on Privately funded passenger train to link Miami and Orlando ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Found a few details.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Their site has some good info.The fact they are going with clean diesel electric engines helps explain the lower price tag compared to the Florida HSR project.Besides, the Florida power grid is already tight on a hot summer day.  It probably cannot support operating hundreds of miles of electrified rails without new power stations.http://www.allaboardflorida.com/]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:41:01 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[New tracks?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Are they going to build new tracks or use existing ones?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[riverat1]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:11:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nice regional rapid rail route.  Thanks for the post.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The overall distance end point to end point is just over 310 miles.Traveling from Orlando south bound the first stop would be at about 200 miles.  Right at the low end of HSR cost effective range, but in the sweet spot for regional rapid rail to stomp on the competion of cars and buses.  The next stop is about 45 miles and the final leg into Miami is about 70 miles.  Not too close together as to negate the speed advantage of the trains.If they had hourly trains scheduled they could do stops in Melbourne and Fort Pierce on every other run.  That would expand the service area to 6 stops without altering the schedule on the final destinations.  Alternating schedules would also keep the train moving.  Too many stops too close together can kill a fast train.At 100mph this is not that much slower than the earlier proposed Florida HSR with a planned speed of only 168 mph.  At $1 billion it is fast less costly than the shorter 85 mile Orlando to Tampa HSR service that had been projected at $2.4 billion.  The cost per mile to setup is far lower than HSR.  And this is a private venture not entirely funded by the taxpayer.It looks like it could be a great project if politics and NIMBY stay out of the way.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 11:05:52 -0700</pubDate>
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