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Hyperloops also might not be able to transport as many people or goods as its proponents claim because individual pods would need to slow down to enter spur tracks.

It would be simple to add a spur track that veers a short way south into Google’s campus, he said.

The town came about when John B. Leonis, a merchant, convinced railroad executives to spur tracks off of the lines into Los Angeles, creating an ideal spot for manufacturing.

It had evidently once been in use as a factory, but now, like the spur tracks, was abandoned.

Then I asked him if he knew where the old spur track led to.