New terminal station under development in Bangkok:https://www.railwaygazette.com/news/news/asia/single-view/view/four-storey-bangkok-bang-sue-station-takes-shape.html …
Yes, occasionally with free land etc from the gov, but they generally raised their own money. But that was when trains were the *only* way to go long distances at speed--it's much tougher to find investors for something like that now.
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Real estate acquisition is a marginal cost in rail construction. But those rails still exist. Amtrak doesn’t have to do a thing but lease or maintain them, and they can’t seem to do it.
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They're kind of crippled in the sort of service they can provide due to hostility from the freight railways that actually own and maintain the tracks--they tend to prioritize their own trains and are loathe to allow the sort of frequent service which makes passenger rail work
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That said, Amtrak is a terrible Frankenstein's monster of a company--they either need drastic overhaul or outright replacement. Most of the long-distance routes they run should probably drop their passenger service, but the senators from those states aren't fond of the idea
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If we want to study successful, profitable passenger rail, Japan is a great place to look--a lot of the railways there have been run by the same companies since their foundation (e.g. Iyotetsu). China is building a ton, but CR is currently losing money.pic.twitter.com/mInqBsRDZ7
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