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The rail networks in the US are actually dwindling [1], from a peak of ~250,000 route miles in the 1920s to less than 100,000 today. The USDOT maintains over 4
by titzer 5y ago
The rail networks in the US are actually dwindling [1], from a peak of ~250,000 route miles in the 1920s to less than 100,000 today. The USDOT maintains over 4 million miles of highway.
[1] https://www.railserve.com/stats_records/railroad_route_miles.html https://www.railserve.com/stats_records/railroad_route_miles...
- bombcar 5y agoMost of that is because of trucks for last mile. Whereas trains used to go right into factories they don’t even slow down in the same towns now.