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Passenger trains in the United States vs Europe (lemmy.nz)

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[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

You've got "precision scheduled railroading" calculating extremely long freight trains with the absolute minimum amount of engines needed to pull it, and thus the absolute minimum crew, constantly stalling on hills. Gave us that video of 4014 pushing a stalled train.

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