1. China's got us beat on total tonnage and on tonne-km; Canada, Latvia, Russia, Estonia, and Switzerland have all got us beat on mode share. 2. I think it might have more to do with the general absence of railways for people to ride even if they wanted tohttps://twitter.com/TheBigYogurt/status/1002596804821733377 …
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Japan's freight rail network plays a minor role in the country, so it's not much use to compare to--but Switzerland sends more of their freight by train than WE do, AND they have the best passenger rail in Europe (if not the world). Freight and passenger rail needn't conflict!
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Presence of trucks doesn't mean rail is under-utilized; different kinds of freight make sense on different modes. Rail is ideal for heavy cheap freight where there's no water route available, eg moving coal, ore, lumber, etc across the American continent.
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This is why so much freight goes by train in Switzerland (landlocked) but so little in Japan (virtually every city has a port)
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Freight rail use in Massachusetts is as low as it is in Japan, for some of the same reasons: the big stuff can come by sea, the expensive and time-sensitive stuff (ie, a lot of the freight here) does better on trucks
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