SETTING THOSE STANDARDS FOR HIGH SPEED RAIL:

(This is a linked image. Buy a print from artist Robert West, who prefers that people not download it.)

The Superintendent has long maintained that contemporary high-speed rail initiatives are useless, unless they surpass the standards set during the Depression and the years immediately after World War II, most recently with this comparison. This site provides all sorts of information about mass transportation developments in the Kenosha, Wisconsin (site of Wisconsin's most modern streetcar line) and includes recollections of genuine high-speed trains that would shame Wisconsin's current efforts.