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[–] 1 point 9 hours ago (4 children)

NYC to LA is 4000km, so a dead straight non stop rail route operating at the current peak of high speed rail (200mph) would still take 12 hours. As soon as you pick a real route and stops and account for that speed being unrealistically expensive you're looking at over 24h I think.

The annoying thing is that rail infrastructure is also expensive to maintain.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago (3 children)

    24 hours isn't bad, I took longer sleeper trains in China.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago (2 children)

    Well it's not going to be faster than 6 hour plane though 🤔

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