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Whose property would you steal to build these rail systems upon?

Probably the same people we "stole" from to build the national highway system. In my mind a modern rail system can be run independently of oil, can offload a significant load from both road and air transport, can operate without the concern that a train would be hijack and crashed into a national landmark. As long as the economy is to be stimulated, at least this one provides the kind of infrastructure that will help us to be competitive over the next 50 years. It would also provide another cross country access route for additional telecommunications and electrical routing. The Kilo decision was as wrong as it was dangerous. We are already losing our property rights. Perhaps a massive national project like this can open that debate again and set the limits back where they need to be.