Black_Mald_Futures [any]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-23 months ago[REDDIT LINK] New China High Speed Rail cope just droppedold.reddit.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up143arrow-down1external-link[REDDIT LINK] New China High Speed Rail cope just droppedold.reddit.comBlack_Mald_Futures [any]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-text
“It doesn’t count because it’s just passenger rail!!! The U.S. has the largest freight rail system!!” cope, crackers
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·3 months ago“Look how awesome our freight rail is!”
minus-squareBlack_Mald_Futures [any]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·3 months agonot pictured: our freight rail
minus-squareAdkml [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·3 months agoThat’s because it’s 4 hours behind schedule because it got sidetracked and the train that had priority had one engineer for 120 cars.
minus-squarewtypstanaccount04 [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months ago4 hours behind schedule is a typical Amtrak delay. You have no idea how delayed freight trains can get
minus-squareAdkml [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 months agoYea 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.
minus-squarewtypstanaccount04 [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoTwo-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.
minus-squarewtypstanaccount04 [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months ago doing great
cope, crackers
“Look how awesome our freight rail is!”
not pictured: our freight rail
That’s because it’s 4 hours behind schedule because it got sidetracked and the train that had priority had one engineer for 120 cars.
4 hours behind schedule is a typical Amtrak delay.
You have no idea how delayed freight trains can get
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.
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.