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.
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.
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.
Ok… so why isnt the east coast covered in rails? The western states pulls the average way down.
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.
Are we looking at the same image?
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.
Yes, theres a lot of rails. Though, even that has declined as more freight is being moved by trucks…
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.
I live here. I know where the train tracks are. They’re all over creation.
Only what is vestigally left. This is what it used to look like