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Originally Posted by electricron

Lone Star was aiming to build train stations around 10 miles apart on average, to keep end to end elapse times down to acceptable levels (less than four hours). The Texas Eagle takes three to three and a half hours to travel between Austin and San Antonio with one stop in San Marcus.
I don't think a train making 10 stops, or 15 stops, can match that. At three hours, you're not going to see many commuters riding from one end to the other end of the line. Most long distance commuters will like to get to their work within a hour. Once you exceed an hour, commuters start looking at other ways to get to work.

I wonder if there are ways to make service variable. I.E. have local service within the cities as well as an inter-city option that would by-pass certain stations altogether.