... would be tremendously expensive for a relatively small transport market. But if an alignment was developed for Rapid Freight Rail from the Pacific Northwest to SoCal, that would become a genuinely attractive sleeper route, with evening departures from the Pacific Northwest and early morning arrivals in California.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.