but 3.5 hours for Mia-orl is too long

Our trains are privately owned.

there's no reason a new/updated rail line shouldn't be 110mph+ the entire route

Well there’s also been a fairly heavy tendency towards consolidation with trains in the United States

Like not too many years ago we had something like 15 or 20 different train companies, now we have like 3

Amtrak relies on government funding

The speed isn't the issue, it's not economical to run timed trains for the three people that might use a given stop per day.

nearly all light and commuter rails are government funded too

I personally think trains are fun to ride on, I once took a train from Istanbul to Tehran

It took almost 4 days

12.5+ million people ride the NE Corridor routes

Okay, but my experience is rural Texas.

hell I take the NE corridor routes frequently too

I was on acela 2 weeks ago

towns of about 200 people, roughly 40 miles apart, through a state 800 miles wide.

Phoenix - Vegas is a route that could be well served by train... There's no highway connecting the 2 and millions of people travel it. Having the ability to take a train even if it's not high speed would be beneficial

If you run enough trains for the system to be useful, any given train would have 1-2 people on it.
Then, when you get to your station, you're on foot across towns that are incredibly spread out. Nothing is in reasonable walking distance.

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I can understand inter-city rail systems. In that particular context, it makes a degree of sense. But my experience with the UK system was that it had stops in every small town, which I don't think is feasible here.

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I’ve been watching North Korea documentaries for the past couple hours

what am I doing

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Well i mean South Korea is a big win comparatively speaking

Took awhile but they are doing good

The People has a good one on NK

and mongolia it was pretty cool too

Educating yourself

Imma watch that one

That is a good thing

Yeah I’m actualing watching the Deutschewelle documentaries

German

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