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Originally Posted by Busy Bee

The FRA EIS is up with lots of juicy spec details for those interested: https://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P1078

Progress should really start to accelerate in 2018!

A very. very brief summary of the DEIS:
The preferred routing will be 1, 2A, 3A, 4, and 5.
The DEIS remaining alternates left are (1) the station location in Houston, and (2) whether to place the main maintenance facility near Dallas or Houston.
The preferred route will be 234 miles in length; 136 miles as a viaduct, 77 miles on an embankment, and 21 miles at grade (58% viaduct, 33% berm, and 9% at grade).
The DEIS didn't project the costs to build it.