America--Fast! United States High Speed Rail map

Likely high-speed rail lines in the United States, done in Tube Map style (in response to Twu's inexplicably and irritatingly popular HSR map, which had no regard for routes' feasibility or profitability).

Indianapolis/Louisville's wonky and I apologize. Fortunately, the dark-grey regular-Amtrak lines are all cranked up to ~100 mph, so it's not like the system's 170-mph-HSR-plus-20-mph-Amtrak; there's even the possibility of continuing service off of the HSR lines using the same trainset. New Amtrak routes are the Appalachian (DC-Richmond-Lynchburg-Roanoke-Kingsport-Knoxville-Chattanooga-Huntsville-Decatur-Birmingham-Montgomery), Black Hawk (CHI-SD), Bluegrass (ATL-Nashville-Memphis-Little Rock-DFW), Caprock Chief (DFW-Amarillo-Denver), Canopy Express (Raleigh-ATL), Crescent Star (ATL-Birmingham-Jackson-Shreveport-DFW), Desert Wind (LA-LV-SLC-Denver-Chicago), Floridian (Chicago-Nashville-ATL-Savannah-FL), Green Bay and Winnebago Express (WI), Gulf Breeze (ATL-Birmingham-Montgomery-Mobile-NOLA?),  the National Limited has rerouted the Cardinal from CHI, North Coast Hiawatha (Chicago-Seattle through MT), Pan-American (Chicago-KSC-Wichita-OKC-DFW-Laredo/Brownsville), Pelican Express (ATL-Auburn-Montgomery-Mobile-NOLA), Pioneer (Seattle-SLC-Denver-Chicago), and Pueblo (El Paso-Denver). A lot of the new routes is to egg on the Red States, Atlanta becoming a new hub. The Père Marquette runs to Traverse City, the Piedmont to Asheville, and the Montrealer's back. Via's brought back the Atlantic and Evangeline.

HSR operating profits might in fact be used to pay for adding sidings, positive train control, & new trackage for Amtrak, urging on the more reluctant states (especially since their poor budgets are from low infrastructure). Of course any agency that dares do too well this day and age gets slapped with funding its retirement for 75 years to bring it down.

The colors are from the London Underground, and I assigned them by the crassest stereotypes possible: cyan for the post-Acela (modern, perhaps even undemanding, inoffensive, and corporate; the Atlantic is also a pretty light-colored ocean); Albertan dark blue (the provincial flag?); the Buckeye red (Midwestern Little Red Schoolhouses?); the Californian blue (like the dark Pacific, but it's the same color they ordered the trainsets in); the Cascades pine green; the Citrus orange; the Front Range mountain gray; the Heartland yellow like wheat or corn; the Lone Star leather and bovine brown; the New Englander leaf-green.