| ▲ | kylehotchkiss 8 hours ago |
| We have like 220,000 miles of railroad. We do have nice things: a working freight railroad system that helps reduce transit costs. |
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| ▲ | AlotOfReading 7 hours ago | parent [-] |
| If the freight rail system were as good as it should be, long distance trucking would be a rounding error instead of the dominant freight mode. |
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| ▲ | anonymars 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Trucks and trains serve different purposes. My understanding is the US has a higher percentage than most of freight carried by rail. Indeed at the expense of its passenger rail | | |
| ▲ | TylerE 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Airlines killed passenger rail, not freight. Prior to it all being rolled into Amtrak virtually every railroad was losing money on passenger service. |
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