I don't think most Europeans that like to talk up Public transport really understand the size of the United States

How fucking massive we are

They cant fathom it

My state is comparable in size to Germany.

They dont realize you could drive 2 hours and not hit a city

With a lower population, of course

Driving from St Louis to Kansas City is a nice 4-5 hour trip

Depending on how many stops you need to take

It's a fucking pain to get from city to city out in the middle of the country

Hell many areas you can drive hours between cities and only find truck stops in between at best

You usually have the luck of coming across small towns out here

At least a gas station at every other one

Irony is out here. Amtrak drops you in Portland, Tacoma, and seattle fine but the nearest to me is couple hours away. Which is odd as we do have trains here and arnt a small town

Wha?

How big?

There's no station down there?

oh nice I'm green again

Naw closest one is in kalamath falls

Oddly enough

..... weird choice

I have no clue where that is but it sounds odd

Well the air base is there. So maybe because of that, but yea odd there isnt one here

NOTE: The Amtrak Coast Starlight, which stretches the West coast of the US, is a 35hr train ride

Take that as scale

Jeez

Is that from border to border and all the offshoots?

Imagine the first intercontinental railroad

how fucking long of a journey that would

be

fuck

@Goblin_Slayer_Floki Sorry, coast starlight: Seattle to LA

Well it would be closer to a straight shot

Ah, is it straight through?

No stops

That's the stops included, which is why it's 35hrs

Figured

Lot of stops between those

The first intercontinental for a while would be mostly no stops once you got out of the east

It actually sounds kind of nice though

Going over the west coast?

See a lot of the mountain country