The “Plan” is that Hyperloop One and The Muhammad Ali Hyperlink will construct an Hyperloop from Louisville, Kentucky. The “last mile” into Chicago will be over the South Shore Railroad. Poor Louisville has been stuck for years with no AMTRAK service.
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PROGRESS OF OTHER HYPERLOOPS
As of October 27, 2017
Because of lack of funding, our Louisville-Chicago is “going slow”.
Our team has been active helping other HYPERLOOP PROJECTS
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St. Louis – All Across Missouri – Kansas City
Montreal,
Pittsburgh, Columbus, Chicago,
Connecticut: Beacon Line
MISSOURI BID TO LAND AMAZON INCLUDES HYPERLOOP ONE TECHNOLOGY
Missouri’s bid to land Amazon includes a bold initiative that would connect St. Louis & Kansas City in under 30 minutes.
Economic Development officials are touting a plan that would create “an innovation corridor” that would connect both metropolitan areas with technology being developed by Hyperloop One.
The plan would include a stop in Columbia.
The initial plan for the HYPERLOOP came from the Missouri Department of Transportation (the “HIGHWAY MEN”). then they got more support….right up to the governor. They got support from “Silicone Prarie News“. Next HYPERLOOP ONE started to “LIKE” them. About then, they responded to AMAZON about building their new headquarters “reachable on new HYPERLOOP”
MO PROPOSES TO WIN AMAZON HEADQUARTERS WITH ‘HYPERLOOP ONE’
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NEXT: HYPERLOOP COMMUTING
Everyone who reads Columbus Underground must be aware that Columbus—or, rather the Chicago-Columbus-Pittsburgh “Midwest Hyperloop Project”— was one of 10 winners of Hyperloop One’s Global Challenge. Hyperloop, you’ll recall, is Elon Musk’s vision for a network of “vacuum tube trains:” trains that are sealed in a tube such that air and wind resistance are eliminated, meaning that, with very little power, the train can move along at very high speeds. If this vision is realized, a trip from Chicago to Columbus might take 30 minutes or so, a trip from Columbus to Pittsburgh only 20. The revolution in transportation—in the movement of people and freight—is obvious to contemplate. But the social and cultural consequences are no less important to consider.
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MISSOURI COO SAYS STATE IS COMPETING FOR AMAZON IN A PRACTICAL WAY
Yes! Build Hyperloop!
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HYPERLOOP IS ONCE-IN-A-CENTURY OPPORTUNITY
More than 150 years ago, Chicago interests financed the first railroad span across the Mississippi River, and Chicago became the “City of Broad Shoulders.” The too-late expansion of Lambert airport dropped St. Louis from the competition to be either a national passenger or air freight hub.
The visionary proposal to link St. Louis-Columbia-Kansas City with a passenger Hyperloop is a similar once-in-a-century opportunity (“Missouri banks on tube travel to attract Amazon,” Oct. 20). It is clear that technology and people will continue to concentrate around great urban centers. By linking rather than competing, St. Louis and Kansas City can concentrate our talent and resources while maintaining our reasonable cost of living within a network of parks, hiking, cycling and rural venues across the region.
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IS RICHARD BRANSON’S HIGH-SPEED TRAIN IN A PNEUMATIC TUBE PIE IN THE SKY?
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Montreal – Toronto
CELINE COOPER: HYPERLOOP WOULD BE A FAR CRY FROM ORANGE CONES
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ELON MUSK’S BORING COMPANY IS DIGGING A 10-MILE TUNNEL IN MARYLAND
Revealed: World’s First Full-Scale Hyperloop Test Track, aka DevLoop, To Make History in 2017
We released the first images this week of our DevLoop, the only Hyperloop test bed of its kind on the planet. Almost complete, DevLoop is the fruit of many long days and nights spent by more than 150 Hyperloop One engineers, technicians and fabricators transforming what was a barren stretch of Nevada desert five months ago into a hive of activity. We will be using DevLoop to run hundreds of tests to validate and improve on the entire set of Hyperloop One systems: pod, tube, vacuum, levitation, propulsion, and controls. It’s tech’s new landmark.
The first and only full-scale Hyperloop test track in the world has been hiding in plain sight–if you know which Nevada highway to drive down. The white steel tube is hard to miss from the roadside. It was only a matter of time before one of our intrepid fans shared some bootleg photos on the Internet. It’s better that we share them with you first. So, here they are, the first public images of our Development Loop, or DevLoop.
DevLoop was the result of many, many long days and nights spent by more than 150 Hyperloop One engineers, technicians and fabricators transforming what was a barren stretch of desert five months ago into a hive of activity. DevLoop is our proof of technology, a crucial test bed that will demonstrate our ability to accelerate a levitated pod at high speeds in a near-vacuum using our proprietary propulsion and control systems. We do plenty of component testing and simulation back at our Innovation Campus in Los Angeles, but there are many questions we can’t ask and answers we can’t get unless we run tests on real hardware at scale. Having DevLoop as an outdoor lab gives us a unique capability to test various levitation, propulsion, vacuum and control technologies. We will be running hundreds of different kinds of trials over the next months, and channeling all the insights we get into the next few generations of production Hyperloop One systems over the years to come.
The one-million-kilogram structure is nearly complete. The last few tube sections are being craned into place and welded, the vacuum pump is operational and installation of the track, linear motor and autonomous control systems are well underway.
Our “Kitty Hawk” moment of first flight is set to take place in the first half of this year. It’s not going to be a long trip for our test pod, maybe 10 or 20 seconds at most. But you know what they say about a small step for man. Once the first brand new mode of transportation in more than 100 years makes its maiden run, this stretch of scrubby Nevada desert (empty except for the tortoise friends we’ve adopted over the last few months) will stake a claim as a future national historic site.
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Times Between Chicago and Louisville
HYPERLOOP Downtown Louisville to Gary International Airport
266 miles in 35 minutes
South Shore Line To Downtown
30 miles in 54 minutes
TOTAL 296 miles in 89 minutes
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Flight Louisville to Downtown Chicago
Louisville Downtown to airport
10 miles in 15 minutes
Flight
287 miles 30 minutes
Airport to Downtown (CTA)
26 miles 72 minutes
TOTAL 323 miles in 117 minutes
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AMTRAK No Service
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Drive Louisville to Downtown Chicago
297 miles in 279 minutes
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Accelerating U.S. high-speed rail development is consistently cited by transportation experts as the best possible investment in the country’s future—it would connect economic regions, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and boost rural economies. Even the most optimistic estimates say this will take decades and billions of dollars. But what if Hyperloop could do it sooner, and for a fraction of the cost?
That’s the proposal by Hyperloop One in its Vision for America strategy, a plan for 11 Hyperloop routes connecting 35 major cities announced last week. The routes are the U.S. finalists for a Hyperloop One competition, where teams submitted proposals for the most promising Hyperloop corridors around the world, based on estimated ridership and economic potential.
Hyperloop One says its new network would connect 83 million Americans, including routes linking Los Angeles to San Diego, Dallas to Austin, Texas, and a mega-route serving cities from Cheyenne to Houston.
In a post outlining Hyperloop One’s plan, Hyperloop One’s senior business analyst Rehi Alaganar compares the company’s vision to the country’s Interstate Highway System, built in 1956 with massive federal investment as the “backbone of commerce.” In fact, each proposal is attempting to solve a very specific regional challenge related to jobs, manufacturing, and the movement of goods. Boeing was cited as an example:
With a Hyperloop network extending out of the Seattle area, as proposed by one of the Global Challenge teams, employers such as Boeing, Amazon or Microsoft could access ten times the labor pool, reaching as far afield as Portland, Boise, and the San Francisco Bay area. Hyperloop would also allow Boeing to move new manufacturing facilities inland to a place such as southern Idaho, dropping its land cost by more than 50 percent.
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This commerce-driven approach touted by Hyperloop One suggests that these routes will probably not be true public transit but will likely be paid for by privately funded partnerships. This might also endear Hyperloop One to the current administration; the two developers picked to head up President Donald Trump’s yet-to-be-announced trillion-dollar infrastructure plan both specialize in public-private partnerships.
Hyperloop One’s technology will be on public display when a test track being built in the Nevada desert conducts its first full-scale test later this year. (The company will also be able to demonstrate the feasibility of its cost-per-mile claims.) After that, however, Hyperloop One will face its real test: convincing local governments, transportation planners, and hundreds of landowners that this brand-new idea is a better deal than tried-and-true high-speed rail.
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How About More Partners For Muhammad Ali?
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First of all, how about another HYPERLOOP that starts in Pittsburg, goes through Columbus and “lands” in Chicago?
See their presentation on
How the Hyperloop Could Transform the Midwest
Spearheading the Midwest route is the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC), a business group in Columbus that has designed the Hyperloop proposal with a stop through the Ohio capital. The plan would allow for a trip from Chicago to Columbus in just 29 minutes, and from Columbus to Pittsburgh in less than 20. The Midwest Hyperloop proposal was recently selected as one of 35 worldwide finalists in Hyperloop One’s global challenge, which saw more than 2,600 proposals in cities from the US to Amsterdam to Australia.
The plan has the potential to revolutionize travel in the Midwest, and boost the Columbus economy by easily connecting its business community to both Chicago and Pittsburgh. The group has specifically been looking for ways to connect to Chicago for several years, and jumped at the opportunity with Hyperloop One.
“People here get really excited about connecting to Chicago,” said Thea Walsh, MORPC’s director of Transportation Systems and Funding.
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After reading about HYPERLOOP, you know that freight is just as important as passenger travel. Well, we have found the perfect partner in Northern Indiana. They can work with us in Louisville and Indianapolis too.
Anacostia Rail Holdings Company owns and operates freight railroads in the United States. Our services provide our customers with neutral access to the larger Class 1 railroads. Our services also include car switching for intermodal terminals and various industries, track maintenance and repair, freight trans-loading, and train dispatching.
About CSS
Capabilities
Chemicals, coal, grain, manufactured products, paper, pig iron, steel, and roofing materials
12 locomotives, 600 freight cars (including covered coil – both insulated and regular – plain gondolas, flat cars and trough gondolas)
The Louisville & Indiana Railroad was formed in March 1994 to acquire 106 miles of rail line between Indianapolis and Louisville. LIRC connects with CSX, INRD, NS and PAL railroads. The line serves numerous major companies and an efficient inland port facility. Since formation, L&I has located a number of new industries to its lines.
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Next, how about a Chicago Bypass for freight?
If you guessed from the picture above that it had something to do with doctors and medicine, your wrong. Simply stated it is all about getting railroad freight around Chicago instead of going through Chicago (with the resulting delays and pollution).
Where East meets West: Any railroad car entering Chicago from any direction can leave in any other direction. It’s done by means of junctions.
World’s greatest junction: Like cruising cabs on city streets, transfer locomotives run from one railroad to another on Chicago’s maze of trackage.
Sounds great, doesn’t it? But why do you need it if your shipping something from St Louis to Buffalo or from Milwaukee to Indianapolis.
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BLOGS ABOUT HYPERLOOP
BUNCH OF DUMMIES WANT TO BUILD HYPERLOOP – FORGET TUNNEL
THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES THAT STAND IN THE WAY OF HYPERLOOP
THIS $130 MILLION ‘HYPERLOOP HOTEL’ WOULD ALLOW PEOPLE TO TRAVEL BETWEEN CITIES IN LUXURY ROOMS
HYPERLOOP ONE HAS AN AGGRESIVE EUROPEAN SCHEDULE
SOME NEW IDEAS FOR PARTNERING ON OUR HYPERLOOP
HYPERLOOP ONE KEEPS GETTING SMARTER. SOON THEY WILL HYPERLOOP!
HYPERLOOP ONE HAS A SHORT LIST OF CITIES FOR ITS 760-MILE-PER-HOUR TRAINS
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Penney Vanderbilt and KC Jones: All About Railroads 
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