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[–] 22 points 2 years ago (18 children)

As an American living in a region with halfway decent (by American standards) public transit, I feel like I hear more comments aligned with the European side than the American side. If public transit has literally any downsides, that's justification enough to drive for so many people.

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  • [+] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Baby, people call me a 2-8-0 Locomotive. I can take you places that you never thought of.

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  • [+] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm so hot, I'm constantly steaming. I'm generally a workhouse, carrying all that freight. Moving vast amount of passengers is no sweat for me.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    First answer: neither: it runs on coal.

    Second answer: 2, fireman and driver

    BTW 2-8-0 means 2 leading wheels 8 driving wheels and no trailing wheels.

    Like this bad boy:

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Although the US and Europe are nearly identical in area, Europe's population centers are far more uniformly distributed. Big cities in America are mostly around the edges, with a vast, sparsely populated area in the middle. Most intercity train service in America is in that fringe, where the spacing between cities is more like in Europe.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    And yet we don't have true hsr in the northeast, where the big cities are...

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    True, but the post is about trains being on schedule (or showing up at all), not about speed. I wasn't saying US trains service is as good as European.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I just see that said a lot and think its a bad excuse for having bad service.

    Especially when we had much better service 100 years ago, with a fraction of the modern day population.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Sure, intercity will never work in the US. Except on both coasts. And upper Midwest. And in a couple mountain and high desert areas. Dammit, that’s like 70% of the population

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