I tried to make it fairly realistic. Obviously I would like HSR absolutely everywhere, but a line through middle of nowhere Montana probably would not see much ridership and would come at extreme cost (especially in the mountains).
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I really like it. It is well thought out. Canada could use a rail line along it's southern cities, but I'm not sure highspeed is required. I would love the Boston to So. Cal line to be the first built.
Did you use population density to decide on the cities?
I generally tried to lay through-running lines between large cities that aren't too far apart and avoiding rough terrain as much as possible. Flat land with plenty of large cities not too far apart? Perfect for HSR. Mountains with cities few and far between? Not so much.
NotJustBikes discusses this in this video around 4:30 onwards
https://youtu.be/REni8Oi1QJQ
The whole video is pretty good if you happen to find it interesting. Pretty much all of the counters that are useful to have in your arsenal to any type of 'iT cAnT wOrK hErE' brain-dead comments from people.