A MOST INTRIGUING MAP.

Atlanta's Business Chronicle notes the proposed route expansions for Virgin Rail Brightline in the United States.

Brightline, America's first new major private intercity passenger railroad in over a century, launched service between Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, Florida, in May 2018. It plans to expand to Orlando and Tampa. Pending the closing of the previously announced XpressWest acquisition and receipt of necessary federal approvals, it also plans to begin next year building a railway to connect Las Vegas to Southern California.

In its Nov. 16 IPO filing, Virgin Trains USA named the 240-mile Atlanta-Charlotte route, with an 8.4 million population, as one of eight U.S. expansion corridors. These cities “possess what we believe are key attributes for a successful intercity rail network using existing infrastructure,” it said.

There is potential elsewhere in the Southeast.  Note that my map did not consider Atlanta-Savannah-Jacksonville and beyond, but perhaps investors with real money at stake will.  I'm also intrigued that Virgin Rail Brightline might want to get involved in Texas, where there are some electrified high-speed rail proposals involving Japanese and French railroaders.

Now, might Amazon be interested in participating in a latter day Amazon Railway Express?