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Lol talking about rails in the US is pointless at this point.

• Retric 1y ago
  US uses quite a bit of rail, just not for long distance travel. DC metro for example has stations over 30 miles out, with other options extending that to over 60. A big part of this is having unsubsidized parking, if you or your company is paying 20+$/day on top of driving the incentives change.
  • drewcoo 1y ago
    Freight trains are still a thing. About 20 years ago Buffet bought BNSF.
    • Retric 1y ago
      Thus the long distance travel caveat. US Fright is doing ok, but it got heavily dependent on coal which is going away fast.
      • WarOnPrivacy 1y ago
        In US, number of miles of rails only ever goes down. https://www.statista.com/statistics/183410/united-states-class-i-rail-mileage-since-1990/?__sso_cookie_checker=failed https://www.statista.com/statistics/183410/united-states-cla...
        • Retric 1y ago
          Removing redundancy is one way efficiency has gone up so much. https://www.bts.gov/sites/bts.dot.gov/files/Figure1_5_0.gif https://www.bts.gov/sites/bts.dot.gov/files/Figure1_5_0.gif