The tracks are elevated so they can be made incredibly level and straight for traveling at 300+kph. It also has the added benefit of not totally leveling everything you're putting tracks over (you can still farm and stuff under them). Elevated tracks like this can also be pre-fabbed and delivered by existing rail, literally bootstrapping infrastructure.
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The tracks are elevated so they can be made incredibly level and straight for traveling at 300+kph. It also has the added benefit of not totally leveling everything you're putting tracks over (you can still farm and stuff under them). Elevated tracks like this can also be pre-fabbed and delivered by existing rail, literally bootstrapping infrastructure.
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Definitely is, the village is right in the floodplain. Hopefully there's an easy path up to the tracks for them in case of severe flooding.