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Spending the entire final paragraph on Amtrak was pretty absurd .
by google234123 6y ago
Spending the entire final paragraph on Amtrak was pretty absurd .
- dawnerd 6y agoBut sadly not wrong. Amtrak outside of the east coast is really depressing.
- midasuni 6y agoAmtrak on the east coast is depressing
- vinay427 6y agoMore importantly, it had nothing to do with CN, which is not a "Canadian Amtrak" or even an Amtrak competitor. CN is a publicly-traded freight rail company that doesn't currently operate passenger service. There are plenty of those in the US besides CN (which also operates a bit in the US): Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, etc. https://worthly.com/business/five-biggest-railroad-companies-north-america/ https://worthly.com/business/five-biggest-railroad-companies...
- Ensorceled 6y agoThe point of that paragraph is that this option doesn't seem to be available in Texas. Texas has lost power due a snow storm, like Boucherville, but has no CN to ask for help. The link is set up in paragraph six. I think you can google for details about what is happening in Texas, it might have made the news.
- google234123 6y agoI would guess the US has 100x more fright trains than Canada. Some towns will have rails going through them, others not.
- Ensorceled 6y agoWell, 10x more likely. But I don't think that was the point the author was trying to make.
- beerandt 6y agoIt's a pretty arbitry to think you're only allowed to ask a nationalized railroad to use an engine in an emergency. (As the author implies.) It's especially absurd here, because CN has been privatized since 1995, and the incident happened in 1998.