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The US has a great freight rail network that is highly used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_usage#Freight_rail https://en.wikipedia.or
by sien 8y ago
The US has a great freight rail network that is highly used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_usage#Freight_rail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_usag...
The US still has one of the most vibrant freight rail networks in the world.
- int_19h 8y agoSure, but we're talking about passenger transportation. That was thriving in US as well, but it doesn't anymore.
- apexalpha 8y agoBit off-topic: is this why Tesla is building a Giga-factory in the middle of a desert? I've always wondered how that is possible. No one in Europe would ever build a factory so far from a sea or navigable river. I guess Americans are simply used to the idea of transporting everything over rail?
- jdhn 8y agoThey're building it there because they got a great deal from the Nevada government, and because Nevada is basically empty desert so there's no real impediments to building a giant factory.