Yes, but only once we have enough money. In the meantime, you can ride this horrifying funicular in Japan with anthropomorphized cars.

Since American railroad infrastructure really hasn't changed that much from those times, probably the same way.

Coalbrookdale (Trevithick, 1802)

Pen-y-darren Ironworks locomotive

Catch Me Who Can

Salamanca

Puffing Billy

Killingworth series

Locomotion #1

Rocket (famously used at the Rainhill Trials)

Stourbridge Lion

John Bull

Tom Thumb

DeWitt Clinton

The Adler

The Austria

The following are steam locomotives categorized using the Whyte notation

0-2-2 Northumbrian

2-2-0 Planet

2-2-2 Patentee, Single, Jenny Lind

2-2-4 Aerolite

4-2-0 Jervis

4-2-2 Bicycle, Iron Duke, Single

4-2-4 Huntington

6-2-0 Crampton

0-4-0 Four-coupled

0-4-0+4 Four-coupled as used on railmotors

0-4-2 Olomana

0-4-4 Forney

2-4-0 Porter, 'Old English'

2-4-2 Columbia

2-4-4 Boston

4-4-0 American eight-wheeler

4-4-2 Atlantic

4-4-4 Reading

0-3-0 (one driving wheel per axle; used on Patiala State Monorail Trainways and also on the Listowel and Ballybunion Railway)

0-6-0 Six-coupled, Bourbonnais (France), USRA 0-6-0 (United States)

0-6-2 Branchliner, Webb

0-6-4 Forney six-coupled

0-6-6

2-6-0 Mogul

2-6-2 Prairie

2-6-4 Adriatic

2-6-6 Suburban

4-6-0 Ten-wheeler (not Britain)

4-6-2 Pacific

4-6-4 Hudson, Baltic

0-8-0 Eight-coupled, USRA 0-8-0 (United States)

0-8-2 River Irt

0-8-4 London

2-8-0 Consolidation

2-8-2 Mikado, Mike, MacArthur

2-8-4 Berkshire, Kanawha

2-8-6 Used only on four Mason Bogie locomotives

4-8-0 Twelve Wheeler

4-8-2 Mountain, Mohawk (NYC)

4-8-4 Northern, Niagara, Confederation, Dixie, Greenbrier, Pocono, Potomac, Golden State (Southern Pacific), Western, Laurentian (Delaware & Hudson Railroad), General, Wyoming (Lehigh Valley), Governor, Big Apple, GS Series "Daylight" (Southern Pacific)

4-8-6 Proposed by Lima, never built

6-8-6 (PRR S2 steam turbine locomotive)

0-10-0 Ten-coupled, Decapod

0-10-2 Union

2-10-0 Decapod, Russian Decapod

2-10-2 Santa Fe, Central, Decapod (only on the Southern Pacific)

2-10-4 Texas, Colorado (CB&Q), Selkirk (Canada)

4-10-0 Mastodon

4-10-2 Reid Tenwheeler

0-12-0 Twelve-coupled

2-12-0 Centipede

2-12-2 Javanic

2-12-4 Bulgaria

2-12-6 Proposed by Lima, never built

4-12-2 Union Pacific

4-14-4 AA20

Duplex locomotives

4-4-4-4 (PRR T1)[36]

6-4-4-6 (PRR S1)[37] 1

4-4-6-4 (PRR Q2)[38]

4-6-4-4 (PRR Q1)

Articulated locomotives (simple and compound)

0-4-4-0 Bavarian BB II

2-4-4-0 Vivarais

0-4-4-2 Swiss

2-4-4-2

4-4-6-2 AT&SF

0-6-6-0 Erie

2-6-6-0 Denver & Salt Lake

2-6-6-2 C&O/N&W. C&O Class H-2 thru H-5. Alco 1912.

2-6-6-4 Norfolk & Western

2-6-6-6 Allegheny

4-6-6-2 (Southern Pacific class AM-2)

4-6-6-4 Challenger

2-6-8-0 (Southern Railway, Great Northern Railway)

0-8-8-0 Angus

2-8-8-0 Bull Moose

2-8-8-2 Chesapeake, Norfolk & Western

2-8-8-4 Yellowstone

4-8-8-2 Southern Pacific cab forward classes AC-4 through AC-12 (except AC-9)

4-8-8-4 Big Boy

2-10-10-2 (Santa Fe and Virginian railroads)

2-8-8-8-2 Triplex (Erie RR)

2-8-8-8-4 Triplex (Virginian RR)

Garratt articulated locomotives

0-4-0+0-4-0 Welsh Highland

0-6-0+0-6-0 Kitson Meyer

2-4-0+0-4-2 Double Porter

2-4-2+2-4-2 Double Columbia

2-6-0+0-6-2 Double Mogul

2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie

2-8-0+0-8-2 Double Consolidation

2-8-2+2-8-2 Double Mikado

4-4-2+2-4-4 Double Atlantic

4-6-0+0-6-4 Mogyana

4-6-2+2-6-4 Double Pacific

4-6-4+4-6-4 Double Baltic, Double Hudson

4-8-0+0-8-4 Double Mastodon

4-8-2+2-8-4 Double Mountain

4-8-4+4-8-4 Double Northern

It's your own fault for not playing Transport Tycoon instead

cuz you have one headed trains and no way for them to loop around? trains cant back up in automatic mode, they need another locomotive facing the other way.

Im probably misunderstanding your question tho, a screenshot would be helpful.

Freight schedules aren't public information. It's a combination of experience and radios. Some dedicated railfans will buy radio scanners so that they can hear about train movements. Passenger rail is much simpler; just find the schedule.

Most trainwatching is just luck or knowing which lines are busier than others.

I'm going to outsource this question to one Gareth Dennis, friend of the WTYP pod.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzA-8fUrw2C5cRcP9gO5BwA

https://twitter.com/GarethDennis?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

The quick answer I found on Quora was that rails tend to need replacing the most on curves on busy lines, every 2-3 years. Little used sidings can last a century.

Train good because car ceases to be car when on rails and coupled into train. Train good even when made of cars because now less cars on road.

No, it could have been great. Fuck the reactionary British press.

The APT still holds the record for fastest journey time between London and Glasgow in normal service at just under 4 hours, so you're absolutely justified in feeling sad about it not working out.

The real tragedy is that the UK currently uses the same tilting tech for trains on the WCML, just worse.

There are loads of nuclear powered trains. Build a plant, put up some wires, annnnnnnnnnnd... https://youtu.be/UjgbK1ZmucE?t=107

But to answer your question more directly, my god an onboard reactor is a horrible idea.

It serves a purpose in the story, and is scary to children, setting up a good villain. Diesel 10's claw is a Chekov's gun. The claw is threatening and pays off several times. It is used to move Mr. Conductor to a different place, to crush a shed, and to be part of a train chase at the climax of the film.

Step 1: Nationalize the railroads. This has been done before; it was done temporarily during WWI. Let's do it again. Also bring back Conrail.

Step 2: Utilize existing railway equipment to bring back sleeper trains to more destinations around the US

Step 3: Massive new orders of locomotives and rolling stock; this will allow more frequent trains and better service

Step 4: Fix up local bus networks to be more frequent so that they connect to the stations

Step 5: Repair old infrastructure- Fix the bridges, replace outdated signals, fix up old lines and transit systems

Step 6: New infrastructure; Electrify rail lines across the US, build new high speed rail lines, bring back interurbans, add more tracks to existing lines, build more urban rail

Amtrak is a private company quasi-public corporation that is bailed out every year by the US government. They own almost none of the track that they run on, except for the Northeast Corridor (where I live) and a couple other lines. They make a profit on the NEC. The rest of the network is owned by freight railroads, who are incentivized to keep their trains slow (freight is very patient) and downsized to reduce maintenance costs. This means trains capped at 79 mph in most places running on single-track lines. Freight companies are required by law to clear the main line for Amtrak, but this law is very shoddily enforced. Delays also beget delays, so if one railroad screws up or intentionally blocks the main line, the rest of the line is also delayed because the time slot is now different. This is what leads to Amtrak often being multiple hours off schedule; for freight "on-schedule" is much more loose.

Absolutely. In Ye Olde Days our favorite war criminals used to campaign for president by train, leading them to live onboard for a while. Here's a picture of a social imperialist doing a campaign of his own. Here's one featuring Gerald Ford. And let's not forget that time :warren-snake-green: did a whistle stop tour but couldn't get ahold of an observation car.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistle_stop_train_tour

Train hopping is very much still a thing, and very much illegal and dangerous. I won't stop you though, so if you want to do so learn railroad safety, scour the internet, learn from the hobos, and avoid the railroad cops. If that's too much try reserving Amtrak seats a month or more in advance, they work like airline tickets.

DO NOT TOUCH THE THIRD RAIL. THIS IS WHERE THE TRAIN'S POWER COMES FROM AND IT WILL KILL YOU

In London this may be harder, there are 4 rails.

Remove yourself from the tracks as quickly as possible. Yell and scream for help. Try and see if you can get the trains to stop. Best solution is to prevent the problem in the first place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_screen_doors