"It doesn't count because it's just passenger rail!!! The U.S. has the largest freight rail system!!"

some-controversy cope, crackers

  • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    4 hours behind schedule is a typical Amtrak delay.

    You have no idea how delayed freight trains can get

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Yea that's because our rail infrastructure is shit and rail companies have one person conducting 100+ car long trains.

      Dozens of other countries figured this out decades ago, it's not that we can't it's that we very consciously do not want to.

      • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        Two-person crews are mandated now on all railroads (with some exceptions), but that's probably still not enough for how long some of the trains are. Without two-person crews you get Lac-Megantic.