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Passenger trains in the United States vs Europe
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All roads lead to… Chicago?
Chicago has been a major transportation hub for nearly 200 years, it is the furthest inland you can reach from the sea by ship. cattle arrived from Texas ranches to Slaughterhouses on their way to the east coast. Wells Fargo was founded because American Express didn't want to operate further than Chicago, but they saw there was the opportunity of linking NY to San Francisco by Chicago
That's not actually true. There are several further in than Chicago. Duluth is the furthest inland sea port in the US
I would say that even this is untrue as the US has the largest system of navigable inland waterways in the world You could load a barge with cargo in Albany, NY and get it all the way to Omaha, NE without ever having to portage or unload the barge.
Your wiki link is pointing to the Amazon Sidewalk article.
Thank you. I have been having issues where the Wikipedia app doesn't properly open up a page and instead puts the text of the new page over the old page.
I didn't even know there was a Wikipedia app. What's the point? What does it do better than a web browser?
The UI is much better than the mobile browser and it opens up articles in a new tab that i can come back to without cluttering up my browser tabs
As a non-app-user for basically anything…
That’s totally fair. I might check it out, because Wikipedia on my phone browser is blinding and the private browser I use doesn’t have tabs.. and I don’t need Wikipedia private. Does it have a dark mode?
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Hmm still kinda like going through iCloud Private Relay even for Wiki but I guess it’s about the most trustworthy site out there
Hahaha I love FFfocus so much. I just love that every time I’m done with a sesh, everything is GONE. Yes I accept all of your cookies, cookie my ass up, web site… they will be gone in five minutes.
yes, it has dark mode
You can reach farther inland than Chicago - Duluth MN. But Duluth is otherwise not a useful destination (unless you need iron ore).
Duluth is to Clevland Cliffs as China is to Long Beach. Empty ships head that way to return with taconite for steel mills
When in Chicago…
Yes. Please, go on...
Much like in Rome, you eat their signature pizza and then judge. Then you visit the buildings that were left from the time where it was burned to the ground.
Then you go to for their religious sites: for Rome it's the Vatican, for Chicago it's the Rat Hole.
… do as Chicagoans do.
Brb getting a deep dish pizza and a shot of Malört
As someone who grew up in Chicago, it has a wonderful rail system. The "US not having public rail" argument always confused me when I was young because I figured everywhere was like Chicago
Fun fact: Cleveland OH was all set to become North America's hub for continental and transatlantic airship traffic. The problem was that airships fundamentally suck, something that the Hindenburg disaster merely highlighted.
*Tracks
But yes, if you ever need a train you most likely will hit up Chicago.