• supertrucker@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    That’s not even remotely realistic. It takes a freight train about 5-7 days to travel from coast to coast. It takes a team driving a big rig about 3 days to make the same trip. The reason airplanes make it in hours is because they get to fly over that pesky thing thst slows down trains called mountains

    • ComradePlatypus [fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      Thanks for the reply. For the record I’m talking about exaggerating the tactical utility (or even outright lying) of highspeed rail so normal people can benefit, in a shit post at work to distract myself.

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      7 months ago

      One of the biggest reasons it takes a long time to move freight on American railroads is because they are being run by idiots using stupid metrics which causes unneccesary delays.

      https://youtu.be/jNkYNjADoZg

    • fox [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      China has successfully prototyped a 1000 km/h train, which is faster than commercial aircraft, and is researching the viability of trains moving up to 4000 km/h.