Alt Transit: High Speed Rail for the Midwest

For Rick Harnish, even to recall the experience of riding on a bullet train is thrilling. “You feel the acceleration coming out of the station,” says Harnish, who has traveled on high-speed trains in Europe and Asia. “There’s this weird sense that the speed is really hard to discern, except an interesting thing happens at about 150 miles an hour. It starts to sound like you’re in an airplane because the wind is rushing by so fast.”...

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