Originally Posted by
venture
Okay, so you want to take Denver out of the equation. If you go south that also means you are eliminating Des Moines, Omaha, and Las Vegas. Now adding an additional 200 miles to the trip you are adding in St. Louis, Springfield, Tulsa, OKC, and Albuquerque. However, you still have the mountains to deal with in NM, AZ, and CA and also now the Ozarks in MO. There is a shorter route a bit further south that essentially joins up with I-76 and then I-70 in Southern PA. However, you not eliminate Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Toledo, and Chicago in exchange for Columbus, Dayton, and Indianapolis. Eliminating Chicago, IMO, is non-starter and will kill any deal. If you do that you might as well go nonstop NY to LA and eliminate any stops except for fuel.
So far though you still haven't justified that passengers will switch to take a 12+ hour journey by rail over a 5 hour flight.
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