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    1. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 10 Aug 2017

      Haunted Forrest  🌲 Retweeted Roadtoserfdom

      529,600,000 trips were made on commuter rail in the USA in FY15. I'm saying that the number would probably go up if the trains were better.https://twitter.com/roadtoserfdom3/status/895722280377999360 …

      Haunted Forrest  🌲 added,

      Roadtoserfdom @roadtoserfdom3
      Replying to @380kmh
      Are you trying to sell commuter trains to people as viable alternative to personal transportation? Because that's a losing argument.
      2 replies 2 retweets 10 likes
    2. Roadtoserfdom‏ @roadtoserfdom3 10 Aug 2017
      Replying to @380kmh

      I do like trains, I just know they cost more than value of the service they deliver in passenger transport. W/o unions & all robotic, maybe?

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 10 Aug 2017
      Replying to @roadtoserfdom3

      If I run a fruit stand and only sell rotten apples, does this mean apples cost more than the value they deliver? Or do my apples suck?

      4 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 10 Aug 2017
      Replying to @380kmh @roadtoserfdom3

      Regarding trains: both their cost *and* the value of the service they deliver are extremely variable. It's just a matter of lining them up.

      3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 10 Aug 2017
      Replying to @380kmh @roadtoserfdom3

      If intercity railways in Japan switched from MUs to locomotives, costs would increase and the value of the service they deliver would drop

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 10 Aug 2017
      Replying to @380kmh @roadtoserfdom3

      By the same token, if commuter railways in the USA transitioned from locomotives to MUs, the reverse would occur here

      3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    7. Roadtoserfdom‏ @roadtoserfdom3 10 Aug 2017
      Replying to @380kmh

      It's a solution looking for a problem wrapped in romanticism. I get it, I like them too but, maglev doesn't change the calculation much.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    8. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 10 Aug 2017
      Replying to @roadtoserfdom3

      wait did you think MU referred to maglevs? lmao

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    9. Roadtoserfdom‏ @roadtoserfdom3 10 Aug 2017
      Replying to @380kmh

      Yes, pardon my ignorance, is it evacuated cylinder travel?

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 10 Aug 2017
      Replying to @roadtoserfdom3

      It means "multiple unit" All of the pictured trains are MUspic.twitter.com/JJ4x9MLjBA

      12:37 PM - 10 Aug 2017
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        2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 10 Aug 2017
          Replying to @380kmh @roadtoserfdom3

          Intercity rail in Japan switched to using MUs beginning in 1958 with the Kodama. In the USA, though, we still use locomotives.pic.twitter.com/ZUN2hUwX7t

          3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 10 Aug 2017
          Replying to @380kmh @roadtoserfdom3

          MU trains, with far more driving axles, achieve much faster acceleration, can be built at much lighter weights, & inflict less wear on track

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        4. Roadtoserfdom‏ @roadtoserfdom3 10 Aug 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          All good but, all minor variables compared to the central issue of economic justification. Will people choose it over other methods/alterns?

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 10 Aug 2017
          Replying to @roadtoserfdom3

          They can't choose it if it doesn't exist, and even today they're choosing the inferior versions where they DO exist (ie, in major cities)

          2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
        6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 10 Aug 2017
          Replying to @380kmh @roadtoserfdom3

          So, let's modernize existing rail systems to cut down wasteful costs and bring in more passengers, then privatize it when it's profitable

          2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
        7. Roadtoserfdom‏ @roadtoserfdom3 10 Aug 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          As a train enthusiast, I agree. As an amateur economist I can't. Services become profitable when people want them, not want when profitable.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        8. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 10 Aug 2017
          Replying to @roadtoserfdom3

          And people want them when they can get more value from them, thus: increase value -> more people want it -> profit

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        9. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 10 Aug 2017
          Replying to @380kmh @roadtoserfdom3

          Over in Boston, commuter rail trains are often overcrowded: demand is much higher than supply!

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        10. End of conversation
        1. Roadtoserfdom‏ @roadtoserfdom3 10 Aug 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          Cool, how does that change anything? I've never actually heard of a single unit train. Not to be snarky but, the word 'train' implies that.

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