fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 days agoPUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAGmander.xyzimagemessage-square69linkfedilinkarrow-up11.03K
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minus-squareobsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up56·2 days agoI expect better of the rail network in America. This is a tiny network for the size country we are.
minus-squareBeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoit takes me 24 hours to go by train the same distance it takes me to fly 1.5 hours. and the cost is the same. there are some problems.
minus-squarerecklessengagement@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·21 hours agoThis has more to do with how commuter trains are forced to give priority to freight trains, causing delays, than actual travel times
minus-squareBeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 hours agono it has to do with stopping at every damn town and there being mountains that slow the trains the fuck down from whatever speed y’all imagine them being able to go to like, 40mph. but please go off.
minus-squareplyth@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoIf you go 300km/h by train and 900km/h by plane then the numbers don’t add up.
minus-squareBeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 day agothey got some fuckin mountains, it ain’t flat. also referring to the real world, not your hypothetical
I expect better of the rail network in America. This is a tiny network for the size country we are.
it takes me 24 hours to go by train the same distance it takes me to fly 1.5 hours. and the cost is the same. there are some problems.
This has more to do with how commuter trains are forced to give priority to freight trains, causing delays, than actual travel times
no it has to do with stopping at every damn town and there being mountains that slow the trains the fuck down from whatever speed y’all imagine them being able to go to like, 40mph. but please go off.
If you go 300km/h by train and 900km/h by plane then the numbers don’t add up.
they got some fuckin mountains, it ain’t flat. also referring to the real world, not your hypothetical