trains on the brain

so one of my projects at work currently is a feasibility study for high speed rail in colorado. pretty fun stuff, and i get to geek out on the evaluation of some pretty crazy technology for our unique application(s) - including the german made ice trains as well as some in-development maglev applications. ultimately the goal is to have hsr lines all up and down the front range (i-25 corridor) as well as from dia out to somewhere near gj in the i-70 corridor. getting a train from dia to points west will be a huge engineering (its the mountains!) and political (its the mountains!) challenge, but i think we can figure it out.

in the end it'll look something like what they recently approved in california. oh purdy good.