So what does the new president of the USA think about High Speed Trains.......... Haley Sweetland Edwards TIME Magazine from   March 3, 2016   In a freewheeling speech Thursday afternoon, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump stumbled into a riff about how great trains are. It’s sad, he said, that the American rail system is so dilapidated while China’s is now slicker than ever. “They have trains that go 300 miles per hour,” the populist billionaire exclaimed. “We have trains that go chug … chug … chug.” The line got a laugh—it’s not often that one sees a presidential candidate imitate Thomas the Tank Engine—but it also underscored one of the most solid planks in the billionaire businessman’s rickety policy platform: to fund and rebuild U.S. infrastructure, including its crumbling railways.  The thing is, that’s usually a Democratic talking point. President Obama spent the better part of his second term pushing for a $478 billion infrastructure bill to fund r...