Proposed to connect Calgary and Edmonton: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-alberta-government-gives-green-light-to-hyperloop-project/
The “artists conception” seems quite fanciful, I have always thought the actual hyperloop passenger experience would be more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCm3ZZBae6l
There always seems to be a little Red Riding Hood aspect to the concepts promoted by these “big thinkers” having little money of their own, but hoping to ignite a public-private partnership. The Wolf always shows up with nice shiny renderings, if he plans to eat.
Bet I now know of someone who watched the movie of Fahrenheit 451 when he was little… it adds a whole new meaning to “miles and miles across the frozen tundra” … don’t you eat that, here, golden consultant snow.
Pity the other video shows “unavailable” now. Was it something Forum readers did?
I wish I still had the lyrics to “Spam-in-a-can, wonderful Spam!”
Wonder whether the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission has found any preliminary surveys from the Ramsey or Harriman Short Line days that would given them their route from Pittsburgh to Chicago to match the wheeeeeeee!! across Pennsylvania. Possibilities in Lima for ‘heritage’ pod units are always interesting. I can even animate the steam and the drivers in e-skin…
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You Tube links are always hit or miss for me: post two links exactly the same way, one works, the other gives this result. Anyway, you could search YT for"pipeline to the west".
https://genius.com/Monty-python-spam-song-lyrics
There is the whole bit, the jungle is at the bottom, and here is the whole story
This is always a wonderful thing. But I was not referring to Spammity-Spam, Wonderful Spam but to the parody of it that references Tom Wolfe’s trope in The Right Stuff that the Mercury astronauts, unlike the pilots in Dyna-Soar, were ‘spam in a can’…
Here we go!
Thanks, York!
That’s funny!
Shhhh, careful what you say about pipelines, they are actually getting built out here right now and the protestors seem to have gone home!
This proposal sounds more like something from Phil Hartman’s Lyle Lanley than anything Monty Python produced.
Instead of spending $10+ billion on a glorified mail tube, perhaps it smarter to start small and build a public transport system that would be more flexible and serve more smaller centres, they way that European systems or Amtrak’s northeast corridor do.
I’m speaking of upgrading the current CP line into a 125+ mph capable operation, which was the option recommended by this study from 2004, back when Alberta actually was a Mule with a spinning wheel.
https://www.lloydminster.info/libdocs/Transportation/HSR%20Full%20Report_10_6_2004.pdf
Here’s what we did with some of that extra $$$:
I believe if you look back to the early 1900’s or late 1800’s you will see subway designs very similar to the hyperloop concept. I don’t necessarily credit Elon Musk as the first to have the idea. Also believe in the old 1936 era movie “Metropolis” they used something similar on a conceptual basis as well, the tube had transparent walls in that movie…at least I think it was Metropolis.
Maybe I am getting the movie Metropolis confused with that huge new city the Canadians are going to build 175 miles North of Duluth to better utilize all that open land up there. 
And without the Socreds?
ISTR that Metropolis predates 1930, and you might be thinking of “Things to Come” based on an HG Wells story.