Tornado Alley (PROG)

[ordinarydude]

...the cost to install new track line would be enormous.

We have to use existing lines, some which have been used over and over again for the past 150 years (of course the rail and ties have been replaced over and over again since those days).

China doesn't have the existing line in place (post Mao era), so they're literally laying new line.

Ordinary