Black_Mald_Futures [any]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-23 months ago[REDDIT LINK] New China High Speed Rail cope just droppedold.reddit.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up143arrow-down1external-link[REDDIT LINK] New China High Speed Rail cope just droppedold.reddit.comBlack_Mald_Futures [any]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-text
“It doesn’t count because it’s just passenger rail!!! The U.S. has the largest freight rail system!!” cope, crackers
minus-squareAdkml [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 months agoYea that’s because our rail infrastructure is shit and rail companies have one person conducting 100+ car long trains. Dozens of other countries figured this out decades ago, it’s not that we can’t it’s that we very consciously do not want to.
minus-squarewtypstanaccount04 [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoTwo-person crews are mandated now on all railroads (with some exceptions), but that’s probably still not enough for how long some of the trains are. Without two-person crews you get Lac-Megantic.
cope, crackers
Yea that’s because our rail infrastructure is shit and rail companies have one person conducting 100+ car long trains.
Dozens of other countries figured this out decades ago, it’s not that we can’t it’s that we very consciously do not want to.
Two-person crews are mandated now on all railroads (with some exceptions), but that’s probably still not enough for how long some of the trains are. Without two-person crews you get Lac-Megantic.