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[–] 39 points 1 year ago (6 children)

You’re conflating passenger and freight rail, so this comparison doesn’t make sense. I know the point you’re making, but there are a fuckton more rail lines in the US now than you realize—they’re just overwhelming for freight rail.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What's the difference in passenger vs freight rail? Rails are rails yo, they can use the same exact tracks.

    They just finished opening up a rail through our city that goes all the way from New Orleans Louisiana to Mobile Alabama, which they use for both freight trains and also passenger trains.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Freight has priority so passenger has to wait

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Nah, not as much as you'd think anyways. They coordinate their schedules pretty well, conveniently for the workers of the companies that need the freight materials to get back and forth to work.

    I don't think they're actually using the passenger trains all that much for casual passengers, at least not quite yet. I think at least so far it's mostly to transport workers back and forth to and from work.

    But hey, it's something anyways, some level of train progress down this way.

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