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Oklahoma City, OK

Stop on the proposed 17,000-mile maglev network. Next stop: Norman, OK (17.3 mi).

About Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City, often shortened to OKC, is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is the 21st-most populous U.S.

Source: Wikipedia summary (full article). Population and facts as published there.

Cost breakdown (proposal-scale estimates — see math)

⚠️ All figures below are parametric estimates scaled from the proposal's own budget ($8.5T ÷ 17,000 mi ≈ $500M per mile), not engineering quotes. Methodology is shown so you can check the math.

Item	Basis	Estimate
Terminal construction	Large-city terminal (parametric range $2–4B)	$3B
Land acquisition	Regional factor 1.0× on $200M base	$200M
Track: Oklahoma City → Norman	17.3 mi × $500M/mi	$8.7B
Annual operations (share)	Staffing, power, maintenance	$60M/yr
Stop total (excl. annual ops)		$11.9B

Best terminal location (proposed)

The Santa Fe Depot / downtown transit center district. The Santa Fe Depot hosts Amtrak's Heartland Flyer and sits beside EMBARK's downtown transit center, making it the natural intercity node. The surrounding Film Row and freight-rail parcels offer buildable land, and the site anchors the south end of the downtown renaissance around Scissortail Park.

Before / after

Before and after aerial mock-up of the proposed maglev terminal at Oklahoma City, OK

Aerial mock-up (illustrative, not an engineering rendering). Left: the proposed site today. Right: with the maglev terminal.

🛤️ Infill stops toward Norman: the proposal envisions more stops than cities — smaller stations between majors. Plausible infills on this leg:

Moore, OK — large suburb directly on the I-35 corridor to Norman.
The Crossroads district — south OKC retail and employment hub.
Valley Brook, OK — small town on the corridor.

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