Want a glimpse of what high-speed rail will look like in California? The Web site of the state's High Speed Rail Authority has a virtual rail trip feature that lets you pick a departure site -- say, Fresno -- and a destination along the proposed route, and watch the trip in computer animation. It's pretty cool.

And if you look quickly, you can see somebody's vision of the Forest City development arising south of the ball park in the very brief Fresno segment.