Tulsa's exciting rail possibilities

[swake]

You may be right but it is unlikely that that right of way would have been turned into a high-speed passenger line.

I wasn't really thinking of HSR but the Amtrak extension that they have talked about for 10+ years. this is that line.

The state is always full of crap when it comes to talking about supporting Tulsa.

[Townsend]

The state is always full of crap when it comes to talking about supporting Tulsa.

There does seem to be a tendency to concentrate on their own back yard and lawsuits against the federal government.

[Hoss]

There does seem to be a tendency to concentrate on their own back yard and lawsuits against the federal government.

You know how Tulsa's new slogan (allegedly) is "A New Kind of Energy"?  Maybe OKC should start using "A Special Kind of Stupid"...

[Red Arrow]

I wasn't really thinking of HSR but the Amtrak extension that they have talked about for 10+ years. this is that line.

The state is always full of crap when it comes to talking about supporting Tulsa.

It could probably do a regular speed Amtrak extension.  I have seen where some people think it could get some minor improvements to be a high speed line.  I've flown over most of it between Sapulpa and Luther at about 1000 ft AGL.  I think the curves and going through some of the towns would be a problem for high speed service.

[Townsend]

Family Braces As Autistic Son Discovers Amtrak's 'Track a Train' Web Page

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TULSA, OK—Just days after learning that the 8-year-old had thankfully moved on from a website compiling all professional baseball statistics since 1871, the local McKinsdale family reportedly braced themselves as autistic son Brendan discovered Amtrak.com's "Track a Train" page. "Oh, God, he's going to be on there for hours and hours at a time," said mother Barbara McKinsdale, wincing upon learning that the site has an interactive graphic, which provides maps, timetables, and real-time, 24-hour updates on the progress of more than 300 trains traversing some 21,300 miles of track. "All we can do now is prepare ourselves to hear about how the 8:03 from Penn Station to Chicago is running 14 minutes late, or how the local train from Washington to Philadelphia is $59.36 cheaper than the express, but takes an extra 27 minutes to arrive. This is going to be rough." Household sources later confirmed that Brendan had just spent the past half hour zoomed in on Milwaukee and hitting his browser's refresh button every three seconds.