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Passenger trains in the United States vs Europe (lemmy.nz)
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[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 9 points 11 months ago

It also doesn't acknowledge that a lot of that is just empty space.

Yes, we have a lot of empty space, but we have very few N/S passenger trains out west.

For example, a train from Albuquerque to Denver is a 45 hour one way ride because you have to go to Chicago from Albuquerque, then back to Denver. This is a 6 hour drive. There is also nothing from El Paso to Albuquerque. However this does not show the train from Belen to Santa Fe that goes through Albuquerque.

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