Beaver@lemmy.ca to Trains@midwest.socialEnglish · 3 months agoIs the US finally getting ‘all aboard’ with electric trains?www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmit.online
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minus-squareKaboom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoWe have the best freight network in the world and Amtrak gets thousands of dollars per passenger from the feds. That’s not to mention all the local light rail and subway systems. Just because we don’t have a bullet train doesn’t mean we don’t have trains. Hell, we’re the only ones to actually standardize our couplers, instead of the dumb fuckery that is Europe
We have the best freight network in the world and Amtrak gets thousands of dollars per passenger from the feds.
That’s not to mention all the local light rail and subway systems.
Just because we don’t have a bullet train doesn’t mean we don’t have trains.
Hell, we’re the only ones to actually standardize our couplers, instead of the dumb fuckery that is Europe