GorkRailway network in the United States at the start of the US Civil War
Funny how the southern states literally only had Mobile, New Orleans, and Charleston. The war should've been a year long no diff ngl. Good generals make a difference, who could've guessed?
PugJesus‘Good’ is a strong word. A lot of '61 was two sets of incompetents flailing at each other, and the dice coming up lucky for the South, while '62 and '63 was largely a series of unforced errors on the part of incompetent Northern generals. The strategic acumen of Lee et co is much overstated.
I wasn't saying that southern generals were good, just that most of the northern ones didn't seem to be. Sorry for being unclear.
Ah, yeah, completely correct then.
AllNewTypeFaceIf labour is free, you don’t need industrialisation, and that attitude carries over to logistics.
And those lines that are in NYC? Yup the same ones we use today. They haven’t been updated since I bet.
Swedneckoh sure they have! they tore down the overhead wire :))))))))))))))))))))))))))
ZorsithCincinnati has a huge train station turned into a museum, it was pretty cool from what i remember
There was a meme the other day about every American town having a train depot that was turned into a museum. I have never lived in a city that didn’t have that exact thing.
In my hometown, there was a train museum, and an old train you could take to a (very close) neighboring town… where there was also a train museum, lmao
I think a more recent map is more interesting:
Remember, America was not built for the car, as ignorant people often claim. It was demolished for the car.
Look at what they took from us!
Look how they massacred my boy!
Fair FairyCars are much more convenient than railroads
I’d take trains for long trips, but no way could I get by without a car. How would I carry our family’s crap to the beach, camp, lake? How would I get 15 sacks of groceries home? Forget hitting the hardware story for much of anything.
OTOH, I’d love to hop a train and roll to New Orleans or Mobile for a day trip.
This is the whole fucking point. Cars being more convenient than rail is a choice. We have and can make a different choice.
No we cannot. There is no way trains would be more convenient than cars. Have u tried going to the store and bringing a cart of groceries home?
I have.
Guy Named ZEROThen make stores we can just walk to in like 10 minutes. Then you don’t need to take a whole cart of groceries home and you can just go shopping every day for whatever you need
I want to go shopping every day?? I work for a living.
Sure, if the store is right next to your house, you can just buy something real quick and eat it
i like to say that the grocery store is my pantry, what i keep at home is basically just pasta, spices, stuff like vinegar, and the fresh things i’ve bought from the store that day.
ProdigalFrogYou could use an ebike with a trailer attached.
What’s crazy to me is that many of the railroads still exist and are used… But for freight only.
nocturneI looked at taking the train from Albuquerque to Denver, it goes east to Chicago before going back to Denver. It is a 7 hour drive, but a 32 hour train ride.
To be fair, we’re using really fucking old technology so it’s not surprising that it’s that much slower.
If we had proper high speed rail, like the Shinkansen, it would be much shorter.
There is also the fact for a 450 mile trip you have to go 2300 miles.
What people with epilepsy or other conditions do?
suffer in silence
but also hopefully they have friends and family who will chaffeur them, and greyhound buses exist, airplanes too.
but also hopefully they have friends and family who will chaffeur them, and greyhound buses exist, airplanes too.