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real talk: right after i graduate from grad school, my aunt and uncle have promised to pay for a cross-country rail trip in a sleeper car, and even if it's a shittier cruise i'm still excited
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My Imaginary GF posted:alternative fact for the next 8 years: FRA over-reach, positive train control, and unions are why rail sucks in america IDOT Chicago to St. Louis high speed rail
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Acela Corridor rail is cool and not too bad, I take it all the time. Best way to get from DC to NYC imo, regional is $49 if you book in advance and takes about 3.5 hours. No airport hassle at all. Regional rail in the NE is pretty good too, especially around NYC. I'd take NJT/SEPTA to Philly on weekends, that was cheap and easy. Obviously nothing near European rail but it's something.
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shirts and skins posted:Acela Corridor rail is cool and not too bad, I take it all the time. Best way to get from DC to NYC imo, regional is $49 if you book in advance and takes about 3.5 hours. No airport hassle at all. European rail doesn't operate over the distances we cover in Amerca. Our nation is islands of civilization inbetween seas of corn, whereas their continent is a zerg hive of welfare statists
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My Imaginary GF posted:European rail doesn't operate over the distances we cover in Amerca. Our nation is islands of civilization inbetween seas of corn, whereas their continent is a zerg hive of welfare statists I will say, it does make me facepalm when people say "OH, NATIONWIDE HSR IS TOTALLY POSSIBLE  ". It's not. There's a few limited corridors where you have the population density to pull it off. NEC (already mentioned) is one. Upper Midwest (namely Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan) is another, and the entirety of California. That's not even getting into overhead ( ) costs to upgrade the lines for HSR or the opposition from the freight companies who have a lot more clout in congress.
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it's definitely feasible to at least cover the coastlines and great lakes in high-speed rail and then we could upgrade the snail rail to inland population centers to be slightly less terrible but again proposals and funding for a lot of these areas already exist and have just been blocked by lovely regional politicians. we gotta get their asses out
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In the rest of the world trains don't have to fend off cowboys, OP.
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Fullhouse posted:it's definitely feasible to at least cover the coastlines and great lakes in high-speed rail and then we could upgrade the snail rail to inland population centers to be slightly less terrible NIMBYs almost sunk a higher speed, intercity effort in Florida. Thankfully, they failed.
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My Imaginary GF posted:European rail doesn't operate over the distances we cover in Amerca.
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Jan 25, 2017 01:16
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Even the relatively short Eurostar runs over 3 countries and has separate transformers for the three (3) different power systems it travels over. We can do it, so can you guys!
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Jan 25, 2017 01:18
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jBrereton posted:Even the relatively short Eurostar runs over 3 countries and has separate transformers for the three (3) different power systems it travels over. We can do it, so can you guys! What's the total distance though?
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I thought this would have already been linked because  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbEfzuCLoAQ
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Jan 25, 2017 02:27
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jBrereton posted:yes it does lol you can get a train direct from London to the arse end of China. China isn't European, dumbass.
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Jan 25, 2017 02:52
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Weeping Wound posted:IDOT Chicago to St. Louis high speed rail
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jBrereton posted:yes it does lol you can get a train direct from London to the arse end of China. That's freight. America has the rest of the world beat for freight rail already.
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Weeping Wound posted:IDOT Chicago to St. Louis high speed rail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMS_ykiLiQ
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My Imaginary GF posted:China isn't European, dumbass.
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iospace posted:What's the total distance though?
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