WEEKLY WHINE

HEARTANDSOUL Phase 1 complete

Hello, and welcome. As we all saw moments ago, the first Heartland Line train from Kansas City has just arrived here in Philadelphia, which means that the first phase of the GoobNet Highly Effective Accelerated Railway Transit for Accessing National Destinations with a Special Opportunity to Unify Locations train network is finally up and running!

Yes, we are very pleased. But this is merely the end product of a great deal of work that has been put in over the years. We’d like to thank all of the construction crews who worked on each of these lines, who have spent so much time and effort laying the tracks, building the overpasses and bridges, and upgrading these stations to what you see today. Each line will stand as a testament to your labour.

We’d like to thank everyone who helped sell this project and who helped keep it sold. This was a massive investment in our country’s future, and it will continue to be. Now that you can travel from Houston to Dallas in just a couple of hours, or from Seattle to Portland, or from here to Pittsburgh, without all the hassles associated with air travel, we believe that you will all agree that it was a worthwhile investment.

We’d like to thank everyone who worked on the documentation. You will see that we have plenty of system maps and timetables available. Please pick up a copy. And you will note on that map that there are still quite a few dotted lines. We are, after all, hard at work already on Phase 2.

We’d like to thank everyone who will be working on these trains and in these stations. Conductors, ticket sellers, ticket takers, servers, attendants, mechanics, baggage handlers. They’re all critical parts of any train network. You’ll see some of them each time you ride one of these trains, but please do remember that there are many, many more behind the scenes who help keep the trains stocked and running smoothly.

Well, that’s enough talk. What do you say we take the Gold Line to Chicago?

LINE 5: PACIFIC COAST LINE
Station	Distance [km]	Time Point [hh:mm]
San Diego	0	00:00
Anaheim	160	00:56
Los Angeles	200	01:25
Santa Barbara	350	02:18
San Luis Obispo	520	03:17
San Jose	820	04:50
San Francisco	900	05:30
Eugene	1,750	09:30
Salem	1,860	10:12
Portland	1,940	10:47
Seattle	2,220	12:20

LINE 10: SOUTHERN SUN LINE
Station	Distance [km]	Time Point [hh:mm]
San Antonio	0	00:00
Austin	130	00:48
Houston	390	02:15
Baton Rouge	830	04:26
New Orleans	960	05:19
Mobile	1,190	06:34
Tallahassee	1,580	08:31
Jacksonville	1,840	09:59

LINE 35: TEXPRESS
Station	Distance [km]	Time Point [hh:mm]
Houston	0	00:00
Dallas/​Ft Worth	390	02:02

LINE 70: HEARTLAND LINE
Station	Distance [km]	Time Point [hh:mm]
Kansas City	0	00:00
Columbia	200	01:06
St Louis	400	02:18
Indianapolis	790	04:15
Dayton	970	05:17
Columbus	1,080	06:04
Pittsburgh	1,380	07:43
Harrisburg	1,700	09:21
Philadelphia	1,880	10:28

LINE 80: GOLD LINE
Station	Distance [km]	Time Point [hh:mm]
Memphis	0	00:00
St Louis	460	02:21
Chicago	940	04:47
South Bend	1,090	05:40
Toledo	1,340	07:05
Cleveland	1,530	08:14
Pittsburgh	1,740	09:29
Harrisburg	2,060	11:07
Philadelphia	2,240	12:14

LINE 95: ATLANTIC COAST LINE
Station	Distance [km]	Time Point [hh:mm]
Washington, DC	0	00:00
Baltimore	70	00:32
Wilmington, DE	180	01:14
Philadelphia	230	01:46
Newark	370	02:37
New York City	390	02:54
New Haven	520	03:42
Providence	690	04:40
Boston	770	05:15