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PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG
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Just how much Tylenol is consumed in Japan?
I expect better of the rail network in America. This is a tiny network for the size country we are.
The thing is the rail network was pretty comprehensive at one point. Only a few remain.
These poor people have such a bad rail network that even their dreams are limited...
I would think that Kansas City would be a bigger hub since it already has a lot of rail through there and is more central in the country.
for freight, not passenger rail, which is what high-speed rail is primarily designed for
But dood. Put a USPS fishbowl-connected car on the end with a sorter working inside and prepping for each stop, and watch FedEx sweat.
Why sort in the train when you can sort ahead of time and maximize storage space? The ZIP code system allows for a national radix sort.
Freight rail is a lot less than it should be as well.
It is also owned by Private Industry without clear rules on what they can charge in that more than it should be.
The rails were only made with eminent domain, Private Industry should not be able to screw people on it, or give preference to large companies over people and small ones.
As would I. There is an existing line from Kansas City to Tulsa to OKC that has been talked about being opened for passengers for a couple decades.
why do all tracks lead to Florida?
Its the other way around, there needs to be as many ways to get out of Florida as possible.
One reason for this is hurricanes are more frequent, and sometimes the notice level is too short to have safe evacuation from Miami through highway systems. There has been anger over deaths from evacuation, when a storm warning did not destroy as many homes as was "hoped"/feared.
I think because it has large populations on both coasts?
A bunch of individual reasons.
Chock Full-0-Sea ports
Nasa historically moved a lot of big stuff over rail.
Florida has a shit ton of Agriculture but a lack of raw materials
Tourism
It's flat as hell
Chock Full-0-Sea ports
Is really the big reason. Less and less portage is going through the traditional East Coast hubs of NY and NJ, mostly going to places like Louisiana , Texas, and Florida instead.
Historically Florida has always been pretty big on trains as well. In fact you used to be able to take a train from Florida to Cuba....kinda. You could take a train across the overseas rail line to Key West where they would ferry the whole train car over to Cuba.
We used to be an actual country that did stuff, and that's because we weren't afraid to do cool stuff with trains.
Florida is also densely populated compared to other similarly sized states, around 135 people per km² (US average is about 37/km²)
Flattest state in the union, which I learned not too long ago. As to raw materials? We don't even have rocks down here. I can only think of one place I've seen natural rock, and I'm all over the woods and swamps.
The train tracks are extra support to keep Florida from floating away.
The tracks in Ticket to Ride do something similar. idk the root cause though
Lots of people in a pretty small area in relatively dense cities that currently drive or fly between the cities (technically called strong city pairings). There's also a pretty enormous tourism industry in Florida that captures much of the Midwestern US/anyone not going to California or Hawaii for their beach or disney vacation. Florida is also flat which makes for very cheap high speed rail. Note how the map goes out of its way to avoid the mountains out West.
That being said, I'm not sure this map is one of the ones made with serious city pairing calculations. I'm skeptical that Quincy, IL has a really strong draw for high speed rail, for example, and that long gap between Portland and Sacramento/San Francisco, while beautiful and filled with cool places, is way too sparsely populated to justify 6hrs on high speed rail. I think it's a sort of meme map that's been going around for years, though I wish it were real.
Thats a weird way to spell Chicago? 3 out of 8 tracks is far from all of them
Look how many tracks are aligned for consecutive stops in the state though
Third most populous state for one.
It’s better than being stuck in Cheyenne Wyoming.
Ports to South America, and ports in New york to Europe.
My dumb ass thought this was a ticket to ride map for a minute.
Tryna get that LA to NY route
No, there are more routes in ticket to ride
The trains are not always trains.
How can our eyes be real?
And once again Phoenix to Las Vegas is ignored.
I assume the gray gaps are due to red states refusing to get on the Tylenol/Autism Train, but I can't believe, if the Autist Party were in power, they wouldn't insist on connecting ALL the dots.
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2025
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