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Re:Amtrak's New Acela Trains Are Here. They're Moving Slower... by idiomat9000 on Friday August 29, 2025 @12:49PM (#45066452)
The rivers are to good as mass good transport medium. They make goods transport bx rail economically unviable for the core country, leaving only a ring of economic routes.
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Re:Amtrak's New Acela Trains Are Here. They're Moving Slower... by ianburrell on Friday August 29, 2025 @01:02PM (#45066638)
That is weird thing to say when US has the best freight rail in the world. Lots of containers are transported by rail from west coast to east coast ports. The competition is trucks, not barge.

If anything, that is one reason that passenger rail sucks because the freight companies own the rails. They delay passenger trains and don’t get punished. The freight companies don’t spend on maintenance, and have pulled up double track.

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Re:Amtrak's New Acela Trains Are Here. They're Moving Slower... by eqvinox on Friday August 29, 2025 @12:53PM (#45066503)
[Regardless of validity, which is questionable—]

Why are you bringing cargo into this? The argument was about passenger travel…

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