Also the class 1 railroads in the US are notorious for opposing infrastructure upgrades and improved technology for rolling Stock, such as automatic braking systems for freight cars, GPS safety navigation and routing systems, etc. And America’s RR rights of way are physically incapable of supporting 200MPH passenger trains. No one wants to foot the cost for improving the roadbed, unfortunately.
And in fairness, Europe and Japan high speed rail are all essentially short line service (50-300 mile routes mostly). They get a high return on their investment. The US rail Mainline’s are up to 2500 miles long each, for each major carrier - and with (almost) no passenger load. We only have one or two high speed short line services that make sense; DC- philly corridor for example. There may be others, but I don’t travel much any more... Glenn Sent from my iPad > On Dec 6, 2020, at 2:50 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 6 Dec 2020 at 21:54, Peter VanDerWal via EV wrote: >> >> Every year they pull up more tracks and covert the railway to something >> else. I doubt they will ever be able to get them back. > > I'm not a rail expert by any means, and maybe I don't pay attention in the > right places, but I don't see this happening anywhere but in the US. > > With the possible exception of the UK and their Tory wrecking crew, Europe > and Asia are pretty well invested in, and committed to, rail service. > Europe's yearly rail passenger-km figure is about 24 times what ours is. > > Ride the TGV in France or the Shinkansen in Japan and you'll see why US > railroads literally can't keep up. Both run most lines between 150 and > 200mph. (Obligatory EV content: they're electric trains.) > > China and other places also have high speed rail, but I haven't read much > about those systems. > > It doesn't help that US politicians of a certain persuasion, and dozens of > influential US thnk tanks, keep beating on our railroads. Much of this is > funded and led by oil money. I'm looking at YOU, Charles Koch. > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Thou shalt not send me any thing which says unto thee, "send > this to all thou knowest." Neither shalt thou send me any > spam, lest I smite thee. > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
