Re: [Talk-us] USA Rail: a progress report

2015-04-10 Thread stevea
OK, this is cool: http://www.openrailwaymap.org/?lang=enlat=40.5lon=-73zoom=8style=maxspeed It's USA's Northeast Corridor (rail infrastructure) colored with maxspeed tags. BTW, if you toggle from Maxspeed (style radio button) to Infrastructure, you'll see the NEC as orange mainline only in

[Talk-us] USA Rail: a progress report

2015-04-07 Thread stevea
I haven't (tediously) added up all the track-miles, but I would estimate that at the Amtrak level, USA Rail is perhaps 75% - 80% complete. However, this optimistic number comes with caveats: 1) While most (26 out of 43) Amtrak routes are complete, for the great majority of these, the