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I'm no expert on US geography, but isn't it like really dumb to put 3 train lines through desert? (the red, yellow and grey lines).
i can understand the coastlines (east and west) and maybe one in the south (the yellow line). what i basically don't get is the rest.
Those are hitting main populations between new York and LA plus the cities in Texas etc.
It roughly follows existing rail links
https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=96ec03e4fc8546bd8a864e39a2c3fc41
It really needs to go across the northern states from Chicago to Seattle - that's so much empty bullshit that would be so much faster to cross and could connect what passes for cities along that route.
BNSF operates a northern rail that connects Chicago to Seattle.
The red route makes sense, because you're connecting two of the most populous coastal areas of the US to each other.
If you compare this fictional map to an existing map of freight rail there are a lot of similarities