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Originally Posted by DoubleF
There's tons of examples of high speed rails all over the world. But I honestly have no clue about examples of high speed rails that have to traverse the same climate as the Calgary/Banff corridor.
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Harbin-Dalian in China would probably be the closest example (actually significantly colder than Calgary in terms of average winter temperatures).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin...-speed_railway
Pricetag of about $10 billion per 100km of track, with a lot of cost going to constructing above-ground viaducts to run the track on, to avoid frost-heaving.