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Originally Posted by HOZ
No, it actually isn't. I used the figure from the amount used in China. Granted there was a lot of graft in China but the labour and other costs is infinitely cheaper.
The laying of track per mile is not just the metal they are putting down. It is the construction costs of terminals, labour, materials, manufacturing of trains and whatever else. I am sure and Engineer can come up with more than me.
I think the trans-Canada highway costs 2 million per km.
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Originally Posted by Dan02
true, but the costs of laying just the track itself is still >10 million per mile. Then add your trains, your stations, and other infrastructure.
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So what is affordable? How much debt servicing could a Calgary/Red Deer /Edmonton line afford? If it cost half as much as the Chinese line, it would be $23 Mil * 200 miles, for a total of $4.6 Billion.