Climb aboard the Gatsby Express
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle expressed enthusiasm today for a high-speed train proposal that could have passengers boarding a fast train in Minnesota and traveling across Wisconsin — perhaps stopping at cities like Milwaukee, the beer city — before hitting the end of the line in Chicago.
Doyle, appearing with Gov. Tim Pawlenty this morning, already has a name for the high-speed train, the Gatsby Express.
He explained that the famous novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby,” has its main character traveling across Wisconsin to St. Paul on a train at the end of the novel.
That’s where his name for the proposed line comes from.
Doyle indicated the cost of the train could be included in the expected Obama Administration economic stimulus package.
Pawlenty indicated that if the federal government wanted to pay for the line, that would be fine with him.
