Mypoint on driving time is that it is generally wht would be considered to be the norm for travel time between the named points. I am well aware that it is otherwise useless unless you like books on tape and have some that you read if your eyes did not have to be otherwise occupied.
Read strongly JIS's point about intermediate point service. A non or very limited stop San Diegan has been tried and proven unsuccessful more than once with the additonal trials under the heading of "those that will not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
It was said in the early 1900's and is still true: The NYC's routing was among the longest New York to Chicago, which give both a higer than normal cost between end pionts and the greatest overall success because of hitting a series of significant intermediate points. That is the other reason that a Twentieth Century Limited could not be a successfult twenty-first Century Limited. It was absolutely and end point to end oint train. Most of that demand now flies. While there will be a number of through passengers the seats and berths will mostly be filled by a succession of shorter overlapping passenger, many with overlapping trips meaning that the practical service would be by multiple through trains.
