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Journal Journal: What's in a Name - The Origin of "The Peter Files" User Name

Journal by ThePeterFiles on Monday May 02, 2005 @03:37AM

To offset the obvious comment that I have gotten in other groups. My user name comes from the fact that my first name is Peter and I run a blog with the same name as my user name here in which each post is a "File" hence, my user name here, The Peter Files. This is not just a matter of trying to get free advertising for my blog which is non-commercial and gets no revenue from ads. It is more a matter of suffering from chronic pain and that it is a heck of a lot easier o

Comment Midwest Coalition on Highspeed Rail (Score 1) 332

by ThePeterFiles on Monday May 02, 2005 @02:55AM (#12404865) Attached to: High-Speed Trains in the US?

The name above is not the correct name of the group, but I saw a presentation at the Metropolitain Conference on Public Transportation Research at the University of Illinois 2 - 4 years ago in which the speaker who was the head of a group that had secured Federal Funding for High Speed Rail said they were in the Final stages of planning before construction of a Springfield, Chicago, Milwaukee high-speed Rail line and that a Madison-Chicago or Chicago-Madison-Milwaukee link was also part of the deal. It was a number of years ago and so I do not remember the details, but it looked like it was fairly close to being a done deal.

I will check around with others who were at the conference in the next few days and see if I can post some accurate information. But the last I heard, High speed rail is not dead in the USA.

Now, I have to say, this is not 300 mph service. We are only talking 120 or 150 mph tops, but it still beats the heck out of driving.

Peter, The Peter Files

http://thepeterfiles.blogspot.com/2005/04/you-too- can-enter-world-of-internet.html/

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