Tolga's Railroad Repository

Recently, as with many developments, opposition has tried to bite All Aboard Florida's project bringing intercity passenger service between Miami and Orlando. People have a fancy for distorting the truth about what the project plans to do and bring to the communities involved. My efforts were combined with the High Speed Rail America Club to produce a video contesting the top 5 butchered claims about the system. Here is a summary of the top 5 misconceptions about the service: 5. All Aboard Florida will cause economic impact. There is no logical way that a city's economic health can be ruined. In fact, the contrary, due to the easier logistics and added service/hospitality that is to follow. 4. All Aboard Florida is Publicly Funded. All Aboard Florida's only gov't involvement is a loan. Other than that it is simply 100% private, run by FECI which is in the Private Sector. 3. All Aboard Florida is Noisy. Any noise impact by a light nine-car trainset cannot match ...

Friends; Many of us are aware and know that the current passenger rail system in the United States is not exactly living up to  systems that are seen throughout the world .  The High Speed Rail America Club is a group chartered within Florida International University and aims to bring high speed rail to the United States. While admittedly such a system is difficult, costly, and takes time to execute, it is NOT impossible, and quoting university president Mark Rosenberg, we as people have the power to "Turn the Impossible to the Inevitable". Our main goal at the moment is to produce a documentary that highlights the current state of rail travel in the United States and what can be done to improve and bring it up to High Speed standards. We would like to film our documentary on and revolving around present day passenger rail, while discussing within the film and later focusing on and cooperating with prospective systems such as All Aboard Florida, which we know that s...