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Passenger trains in the United States vs Europe (i.redd.it)

submitted 10 months ago by ooli3@sopuli.xyz to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok... so why isnt the east coast covered in rails? The western states pulls the average way down.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The East coast is covered in rails. There's an Amtrak station within walking distance of my house. We have a high speed rail line in the Northeast Corridor and have for decades.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Are we looking at the same image?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I live here. I know where the train tracks are. They're all over creation.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Only what is vestigally left. This is what it used to look like

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Actually, I realize we're not looking at the same map. Those are the passenger routes. I'm thinking of railways. We've got more rail than that, we just don't run passenger trains on them.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, theres a lot of rails. Though, even that has declined as more freight is being moved by trucks...

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

You've got "precision scheduled railroading" calculating extremely long freight trains with the absolute minimum amount of engines needed to pull it, and thus the absolute minimum crew, constantly stalling on hills. Gave us that video of 4014 pushing a stalled train.