How do we improve America’s rail network?

Over long distances a train is slower and more expensive than a plane. Over short distances a car is more direct than a train.

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>How do we improve America’s rail network?
The single biggest improvement would be adding slow passenger cars that are completely self contained to the trains.
Want to cross the country the old way? Board a luxury train car and see the sights.
>Rail gives faster trips in many cases, and it’s a lot more comfortable.
Says the man who's never taken AMTRAK from DC to New York. Handjobs, open drug use, sandwiches ground into the carpet.

Over distances about 300-500 miles, high-speed rail is your best option.
It’s much faster than a car and you don’t have to drive, you can read, watch a movie, browse the web etc.

Where is BNSF?

OK, I looked over the graphic, it's worse than I thought.
>No train outside a DOE test track has gone 220 mph in the US
>Acela, the only US high speed rail, tops out at 150 mph
>can't have to many stops or it's really inefficient
>entire Northeast Corridor into Rust Belt is going to be a property rights nightmare
>it was impossible to widen Acela track route due to industry and homes
>California high speed rail project is collapsing
>none of this makes sense for cargo
>people fly to all those cities
>or drive
>or take existing commuter rail
>cargo is already ports to trains to trucks in the most efficient system yet created
The only thing that possibly makes sense for high speed rail is a hyperloop pod network, not even memeing. Drop cargo or passengers into the tube, 800 mph to destination.

Sleeper trains are the aristocratic way to travel, even today. The journey is the destination. High speed rail is fucking expensive and gay.

This is /n now.

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Whew. I've been on Jow Forums for 10 years now and never knew we had a transportation board. lmao

How do you improve rail lines in America?
You ban oil pipelines like Warren Buffet got Obama to do.

Frequent Oval Office visitor Buffet owns the Burlington railroad that goes from oil fields to southern refineries. The Keystone pipeline got protested by rent-a-mob protesters and Obama stopped the pipeline, although a pipeline is safer and less prone to spillage than a train.

Buffet’s trains transport the oil and he makes billions. Buffet supports Obama. See how it works?

A flight from Orlando to Atlanta is both cheaper and faster in a plane than on a train
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Oh I feel so stupid now.

Fix the government first.
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look at the engineering that went in that train

Steam trains are just absolutely majestic.
Nothing compares to their sound.
We have a heritage train track close to my house and the train goes every Sunday in the summer.
When it starts from the station it does choooo choooo and I do chooo chooo too. This is when I truly feel alive.

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>Buffet’s trains transport the oil and he makes billions.
Transporting oil by rail regularly causes disasters and these sharks make money off both ends of it.
I came.

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>How do we improve America’s rail network?
You throw tens of billions of dollars at it every year for no noticeable benefit beyond politicians wanking in public over how wonderful it is.