Texas could get a 205-mph bullet train zipping between Houston and Dallas::The proposed electric railway line could travel 240 miles in under 90 minutes for over 6 million passengers per year.

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Hyperloop? Pfffffttt. My imaginary train is even faster!

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“Could” being the operative word. People have been trying to build this since the 1990s.

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You’ve gotta laugh… It is the same everywhere I think: Is a high-speed rail possible in Australia

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Sydney to Melbourne looks ridiculous in comparison with like three times the distance.

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I doubt it … first, it’s electric, and second, you cannot install a lift kit on it.

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But you could add some truck nuts behind every train car and some bull horns on the front.

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It’s electric, but a diesel engine strictly for “rolling coal” at cyclists will also be installed.

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Been talking about this for years, wake me up when they actually start doing something.

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Seriously. It comes up every couple of years. Then the residents of Grimes county get all up in arms, put signs all along highway 6, vote against it, and then it dies a silent death.

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