Russian Railways carries about 33 times as many passengers per year as Amtrak, time to put that stupid idea of "America is too big/empty for trains" to rest
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The Mississippi and Intracoastal Waterway systems are without compare in Russia, I bet
Wat is the Volga River
I don't think they have anything comparable to the Intracoastal Waterway, to be sure, but Russia was *built* on inland waterways
Trying to find raw numbers on Volga tonnage is hard to do at work, but if bet the volga-don-baltic system carries less than the IW-Mississippi-Great Lakes system
probably, yeah, but there are also probably fewer people living there (and this only serves to emphasize how unusual Russia's rail use is by US standards)
US freight rail by tons, not ton-miles, is only ~15%. The private freight roads eschew almost the entire short-haul market where most freight moves.
aha! I didn't realize they snuck that into the definition for mode share...makes perfect sense tho, freight rail is impractical for short trips
That’s where you’re wrong, kiddo! A single crew can pay its way moving as few as six cars. That’s how local trains work on the manifest network and how short lines function. Railroads have demarketed this business.
I didn't say it's *impossible,* rather that a lot of short-haul freight can be delivered with more precise timing by truck there is a short line near me, the Pioneer Valley Railroad, and while it's very successful, its share of local freight traffic is trivial
That’s because it’s limited by where it’s rails go, unlike the road network.
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