Freight train in America is considered the largest, safest, and most cost efficient freight system in the world. It covers 140,000 route miles. Also, there are many things you can clown America in, but logistics is not one of them
It's not in the past? You can see how much of a demand there is to move products across the country, and it's competing directly with the trucking industry. Companies like Amazon greatly benefits from this. Here's what the former director of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies in Germany said.
It's so efficient because they are cutting costs at the cost of safety
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>muh freight network
see, this muddies the waters as first world countries use the existing passenger rail network for freight.
so if we use your own article: >. Passenger rail in the U.S., on the other hand, is seen as a perennial disappointment, with train speeds and ridership lagging Japan, Western Europe and now China. And while Congress had hoped that creating Amtrak would “revitalize rail transportation service in the expectation that the rendering of such service along certain corridors can be made a profitable commercial undertaking,” the company has required federal operating subsidies every year since its founding.
The US is a total failure.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Rail is for freight. Roads are for passenger travel.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>t. General Motors
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Euro trash
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
> be usa > has some of the world's most trafficked and longest passenger lines > some schizo shit about freight
it's as if you don't even live in america. what are the odds? amazing.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Passenger travel by train is inefficient for most of America. Cars exist for that, but I can't really blame you for failing to grasp this. Turdies generally don't understand the concept of private property ownership and always need their daddy government wiping their asses for them with everything they do.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Passenger travel by train is inefficient for most of America.
What are you talking about? The vast majority of the population live within a few miles of train stations, current or former, and the vast majority of travel is between destinations with train stations. America was built by railroads.
Trains are much more efficient than air travel for mid-distance travel (100-400 miles). The only reason they went away is that the mega-wealthy can afford private planes, which is why the Government pays to maintain airports everywhere. They can't afford private trains. Which is why the US spends tens of billions enabling air travel for the wealthy, but almost no money on rail transports for the masses.
Cars and freight trucks are great as a solution for the last 100 miles, but they shouldn't be the option the masses are forced into for mid distance travel.
Having more passenger and freight rail would save 10s of billions of dollars every year in reduced wear and tear and traffic on roads.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Rich people can totally afford private trains (railcars), they just won't use them because they can afford to go faster in private planes.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
The issue is the rails. They might be able to afford a private locomotive, but they wouldn't be able to run it anywhere.
If there was actually an effective passenger rail system they would be able to travel more quickly by train than they can by plane.
With a plane you have to get the clearance on the runway, which can take hours, you might be able to fly to another airport quickly, but then you wind up in a holding pattern waiting for clearance to land, and then you have to get from the airport on the outskirts of town to wherever you were going downtown.
With passenger rail, you get on the train, the train leaves and then it arrives downtown. The actual travel time may have been longer, but it eliminates a lot of the overhead of flying.
The tracks need to be public, maintained properly, brought up to modern standards, electrified, and expanded for increased capacity. Rail lines are capable of moving far more people or freight than cars, trucks, or aircraft.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Okay, so there's a couple things.
I can't readily find information on how long it takes to get access to a runway, or how long it takes to get a flight when you've got a sudden notice that you need to get somewhere, but I would imagine the situation is different at the smaller airports that the airliners can't use. And yes it can take that long but from experience, someone has really screwed up somewhere if it does.
Trains probably don't have the exact same level of bureaucracy, but you actually do have to carefully plan out your route in advance because you have to use the same rails and stations as every other train. There's no way of knowing how often this will happen because no one does this, but a private railcar isn't going to be passing anything that's in its way.
Also, unless someone built a transatlantic railroad while I wasn't looking, trains don't cross oceans. If you're rich enough to afford a private jet and have to go between the US and Europe on a regular basis, a private railcar is just redundant or an eccentricity at best.
And most importantly,
[...]
I'm not saying a greatly expanded rail network would be a bad thing, I'm just saying the mega-wealthy still wouldn't use it by choice.
And the only reason I said anything at all was because the idea that the mega-wealthy can't afford private rail vehicles is just silly.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
moron
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Based. As usual IQfy gets mindbroken and just starts to screech when presented with facts.
/thread
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
> best and most efficient in the world > has more catastrophic freight accidents on record than any other nation
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew
>Freight train in America is considered the largest, safest, and most cost efficient freight system in the world. It covers 140,000 route miles. Also, there are many things you can clown America in, but logistics is not one of them
Isn't it funny how Americans always claim they are the best at everything yet they rarely are?
>Isn't it funny how Americans always claim they are the best at everything yet they rarely are?
World's Best Transportation Disasters, Baby!
America, Frick Yeah!
Pajeets have the world's highest density of rail network, highest rate of electrified tracks, very high amount of automation in track switching and routing.
Am I supposed to believe they are first world then?
their rail network were built by the british when india was under colonial rule and the indians are still using the same tracks and setups that were installed a century ago. they never evolved.
But capitalism is the cause. You know that it is. You know it's fine to criticize capitalism and still not be a communist, right? You don't have to worship one or the other like some weak homosexual.
The problem in America is the capitalist beast has not been tamed. It has no restrictions, it's completely free to do whatever it wants. It's sad how the richest country, by far, has horrendous infrastructure. Something is very wrong in America.
>But capitalism is the cause. You know that it is.
We were doing well with capitalism until a certain group of... people came along and abused the system until it no longer worked. Of course, nobody ever mentions them because they'll get shunned and will instead put all the blame on capitalism.
The truth is that these systems can work if everyone is truly honest and looking out for everyone's well-being. Yes, even communism at its core can work only if everyone plays fairly, but we all know that is almost never the case and there will always be dishonest, greedy homosexuals that ruin it for everyone else.
>We were doing well with capitalism until a certain group of... people came along and abused the system until it no longer worked.
i-i completely forgot about ~~*them*~~. i kneel anon-sama, you are right
You say this, because you do not know nor understand what CAPITALISM is, due to the fact that you've been brainwashed by socialists and communists to think and believe that what the west has is Capitalism. It is NOT. Capitalism is void of authoritarianism, which is is essentially a belief system. moronic people believe that another group of morons has the right to rule over them. There is no authority. There is only the BELIEF in authority.
>t. Corporate bootlicker
Another moron who doesn't comprehend what capitalism is. Not surprised.
>But capitalism is the cause. You know that it is. You know it's fine to criticize capitalism and still not be a communist, right? You don't have to worship one or the other like some weak homosexual.
Government-built infrastructure has nothing to do with economic system. There's more than enough revenue to rebuild everything, but projects today only get built based on graft potential. >The problem in America is the capitalist beast has not been tamed. It has no restrictions, it's completely free to do whatever it wants. It's sad how the richest country, by far, has horrendous infrastructure. Something is very wrong in America.
Wh-what if we took the free market and made it not free? soiface.jpg
> be america > privatized entire rail networks since the beginning > every decade there's multiple massive accidents > rail operators refuse to spend money upgrading their rail infrastructure > refuse to spend money on basic maintenance > RUH ROH, SHAGGY! A TRAIN CAME OFF THE TWAKS AND IS ON FIRE!
really not a fricking mystery, anon.
why are trains so glorified? as a thirdie i went to school by train for 12 years because i had to. it's a good thing that americans don't have to do this and can afford other options.
>the only trains that exist in the world are the rolling piles of rust we have in my 3rd world shithole!!!!11111
imagine being this moronic, oh wait we are in IQfy
you can judge if a country is third world or not by its rail infrastructure.
guess where that puts america?
Freight train in America is considered the largest, safest, and most cost efficient freight system in the world. It covers 140,000 route miles. Also, there are many things you can clown America in, but logistics is not one of them
boomer detected.
get your head out of the past.
It's not in the past? You can see how much of a demand there is to move products across the country, and it's competing directly with the trucking industry. Companies like Amazon greatly benefits from this. Here's what the former director of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies in Germany said.
Soruce: https://www.ttnews.com/articles/us-railroad-system-great-freight
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It's so efficient because they are cutting costs at the cost of safety
>muh freight network
see, this muddies the waters as first world countries use the existing passenger rail network for freight.
so if we use your own article:
>. Passenger rail in the U.S., on the other hand, is seen as a perennial disappointment, with train speeds and ridership lagging Japan, Western Europe and now China. And while Congress had hoped that creating Amtrak would “revitalize rail transportation service in the expectation that the rendering of such service along certain corridors can be made a profitable commercial undertaking,” the company has required federal operating subsidies every year since its founding.
The US is a total failure.
Rail is for freight. Roads are for passenger travel.
>t. General Motors
Euro trash
> be usa
> has some of the world's most trafficked and longest passenger lines
> some schizo shit about freight
it's as if you don't even live in america. what are the odds? amazing.
Passenger travel by train is inefficient for most of America. Cars exist for that, but I can't really blame you for failing to grasp this. Turdies generally don't understand the concept of private property ownership and always need their daddy government wiping their asses for them with everything they do.
>Passenger travel by train is inefficient for most of America.
What are you talking about? The vast majority of the population live within a few miles of train stations, current or former, and the vast majority of travel is between destinations with train stations. America was built by railroads.
Trains are much more efficient than air travel for mid-distance travel (100-400 miles). The only reason they went away is that the mega-wealthy can afford private planes, which is why the Government pays to maintain airports everywhere. They can't afford private trains. Which is why the US spends tens of billions enabling air travel for the wealthy, but almost no money on rail transports for the masses.
Cars and freight trucks are great as a solution for the last 100 miles, but they shouldn't be the option the masses are forced into for mid distance travel.
Having more passenger and freight rail would save 10s of billions of dollars every year in reduced wear and tear and traffic on roads.
Rich people can totally afford private trains (railcars), they just won't use them because they can afford to go faster in private planes.
The issue is the rails. They might be able to afford a private locomotive, but they wouldn't be able to run it anywhere.
If there was actually an effective passenger rail system they would be able to travel more quickly by train than they can by plane.
With a plane you have to get the clearance on the runway, which can take hours, you might be able to fly to another airport quickly, but then you wind up in a holding pattern waiting for clearance to land, and then you have to get from the airport on the outskirts of town to wherever you were going downtown.
With passenger rail, you get on the train, the train leaves and then it arrives downtown. The actual travel time may have been longer, but it eliminates a lot of the overhead of flying.
The tracks need to be public, maintained properly, brought up to modern standards, electrified, and expanded for increased capacity. Rail lines are capable of moving far more people or freight than cars, trucks, or aircraft.
Okay, so there's a couple things.
I can't readily find information on how long it takes to get access to a runway, or how long it takes to get a flight when you've got a sudden notice that you need to get somewhere, but I would imagine the situation is different at the smaller airports that the airliners can't use. And yes it can take that long but from experience, someone has really screwed up somewhere if it does.
Trains probably don't have the exact same level of bureaucracy, but you actually do have to carefully plan out your route in advance because you have to use the same rails and stations as every other train. There's no way of knowing how often this will happen because no one does this, but a private railcar isn't going to be passing anything that's in its way.
Also, unless someone built a transatlantic railroad while I wasn't looking, trains don't cross oceans. If you're rich enough to afford a private jet and have to go between the US and Europe on a regular basis, a private railcar is just redundant or an eccentricity at best.
And most importantly,
I'm not saying a greatly expanded rail network would be a bad thing, I'm just saying the mega-wealthy still wouldn't use it by choice.
And the only reason I said anything at all was because the idea that the mega-wealthy can't afford private rail vehicles is just silly.
moron
Based. As usual IQfy gets mindbroken and just starts to screech when presented with facts.
/thread
> best and most efficient in the world
> has more catastrophic freight accidents on record than any other nation
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew
>Freight train in America is considered the largest, safest, and most cost efficient freight system in the world. It covers 140,000 route miles. Also, there are many things you can clown America in, but logistics is not one of them
Isn't it funny how Americans always claim they are the best at everything yet they rarely are?
looking at it from the outside it is kinda funny, but then my people think exactly the same, or at least the old farts do
Nah my folks are only good at building cars and starting world wars
If your people hate themselves, they will be destroyed by people who don't. So, Even if it's delusion, you can't hate who you are.
>Isn't it funny how Americans always claim they are the best at everything yet they rarely are?
World's Best Transportation Disasters, Baby!
America, Frick Yeah!
where
Pajeets have the world's highest density of rail network, highest rate of electrified tracks, very high amount of automation in track switching and routing.
Am I supposed to believe they are first world then?
first world ≠ first in class
their rail network were built by the british when india was under colonial rule and the indians are still using the same tracks and setups that were installed a century ago. they never evolved.
Only third world countries use trains in the first place
Dumb third worlder. Everyone in America owns a car.
ahead of everyone else I would assume, since train obsession generally seems to be a third world country thing
Longer trains to pull more haulage. Two staff to man the entire train. Train length can be 3.4 miles long.
Watch this :
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>Longer trains to pull more haulage. Two staff to man the entire train. Train length can be 3.4 miles long.
>Watch this :
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15 posts in and not one moronic mention of capitalism being the cause from a zesty commie homosexual. I have great hopes for this board, after all.
>t. Corporate bootlicker
But capitalism is the cause. You know that it is. You know it's fine to criticize capitalism and still not be a communist, right? You don't have to worship one or the other like some weak homosexual.
The problem in America is the capitalist beast has not been tamed. It has no restrictions, it's completely free to do whatever it wants. It's sad how the richest country, by far, has horrendous infrastructure. Something is very wrong in America.
>But capitalism is the cause. You know that it is.
We were doing well with capitalism until a certain group of... people came along and abused the system until it no longer worked. Of course, nobody ever mentions them because they'll get shunned and will instead put all the blame on capitalism.
The truth is that these systems can work if everyone is truly honest and looking out for everyone's well-being. Yes, even communism at its core can work only if everyone plays fairly, but we all know that is almost never the case and there will always be dishonest, greedy homosexuals that ruin it for everyone else.
>We were doing well with capitalism until a certain group of... people came along and abused the system until it no longer worked.
i-i completely forgot about ~~*them*~~. i kneel anon-sama, you are right
You say this, because you do not know nor understand what CAPITALISM is, due to the fact that you've been brainwashed by socialists and communists to think and believe that what the west has is Capitalism. It is NOT. Capitalism is void of authoritarianism, which is is essentially a belief system. moronic people believe that another group of morons has the right to rule over them. There is no authority. There is only the BELIEF in authority.
Another moron who doesn't comprehend what capitalism is. Not surprised.
>But capitalism is the cause. You know that it is. You know it's fine to criticize capitalism and still not be a communist, right? You don't have to worship one or the other like some weak homosexual.
Government-built infrastructure has nothing to do with economic system. There's more than enough revenue to rebuild everything, but projects today only get built based on graft potential.
>The problem in America is the capitalist beast has not been tamed. It has no restrictions, it's completely free to do whatever it wants. It's sad how the richest country, by far, has horrendous infrastructure. Something is very wrong in America.
Wh-what if we took the free market and made it not free? soiface.jpg
> be america
> privatized entire rail networks since the beginning
> every decade there's multiple massive accidents
> rail operators refuse to spend money upgrading their rail infrastructure
> refuse to spend money on basic maintenance
> RUH ROH, SHAGGY! A TRAIN CAME OFF THE TWAKS AND IS ON FIRE!
really not a fricking mystery, anon.
why are trains so glorified? as a thirdie i went to school by train for 12 years because i had to. it's a good thing that americans don't have to do this and can afford other options.
>the only trains that exist in the world are the rolling piles of rust we have in my 3rd world shithole!!!!11111
imagine being this moronic, oh wait we are in IQfy
>rolling piles of rust
your words not mine
bro india sucks
Was all this purple prose necessary to say that a train crashed?
thanks biden, wouldn't have this problem with pipelines.
Train tech is fine, diesel electric motors are great. It's the tracks that are all fricked up, from a complete lack of maintenance