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TRAINLORD_TF t1_jabi1zt wrote

Currently, Im still waiting for my Train to arrive.

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C4RD_TP_SG t1_jabienz wrote

somebody left a shit stained diaper on one of the seats here

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Grivit14 t1_jabk56x wrote

So behind on public transportation it's rediculous.

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Redditor_RBN t1_jabmp6p wrote

I can only think of cars than a train, when I think about public transportation in USA. Ok maybe buses, if they exist.

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ilhamalfatihah16 t1_jabmvl1 wrote

The train system in my country is probably one of the few things that I would acknowledge our colonizer did right. Our interstate train system network was developed by them 138 years ago and is constantly modernized now to suit current domestic needs.

Kudos to them, albeit their purpose of building it is to steal our resources faster, kudos.

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xmichael86 t1_jabo8of wrote

That’s why we can’t have nice things like a bullet trains

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wordswillneverhurtme t1_jabsrvk wrote

It is not a toxic fallout but its still a mess. You can basically drive faster to the destination by car than the train. So the train is useless.

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tigerDer_1 t1_jabtycg wrote

italy: the train number 15324 will have a delay of 1h and 35 mins for rail manutention

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Hari1503 t1_jabvf9d wrote

Indian trains. They have a lot of different locomotives.

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Bromine67 t1_jabwevb wrote

Of course the French one isn't here because he was late... Like always.

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No0biz t1_jabwt68 wrote

I like how this doesn't include French trains (they are probably late or on strike)

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dec35 t1_jaby42e wrote

And they say america is the most advanced county in the world, smh. You can't go anywhere without taking the car, what an ecological disaster

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mtgkajhit t1_jaby53g wrote

Replying to wordswillneverhurtme (#2,095,735)

Can confirm. My town was doing historic rail rides to connecting cities for a summer when I was a kid. Modern locomotives with 1960s passenger cars. Because of the speed limits and having to yield to freight a normally 30-45 minute drive by car ended up taking 4-5 hours. It was a cool experience but holy fuck did it take forever.

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HotCaptain4297 t1_jabycfu wrote

Australian trains just have graffiti up the side of them and eshays with knives inside of them.

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WaAaT25 t1_jabydir wrote

Portugal: they don't show up (CP moment)

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Hona007 t1_jac0363 wrote

Replying to HotCaptain4297 (#2,096,958)

Yeah graffiti on passenger rail sucks... But I massively respect it for cargo. It don't hurt anyone. And I one saw a T type wagon which had "Hallo Aus Deutschland" then another type of paint "Ahoj z česka" "Hallo Aus osterreich" and same with polish and probably french. Translation "Hello from (country) idk. It was just wholesome imo.

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Plerti t1_jac03ia wrote

Funny that right now in Spain there is a controversy about the government buying new trains that are too big to pass through the existing tunnels and too heavy to pass over some of the existing bridges.

So yeah, they're pretty much stashed like in that photo

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Tomkistann t1_jac1hpb wrote

Still waiting for it, i'm only waiting 2 hours (czechia)

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MoronDark t1_jac2ugw wrote

Replying to dec35 (#2,096,904)

Firend visited America once, i asked her to buy for me one thing in shop one block away from her hotel, she said she cant go there without a taxi and overall moving in city without a car is pain

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DragantaMM t1_jac2ysa wrote

germany is kinda unrealistic.. that train should only arrive in an hour or two.. maybe not at all

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FuryandFurry t1_jac35ag wrote

haha good joke. the german trainstation should be empty cause they never arrive lol

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yayaoa t1_jac445o wrote

For Germany you should've put a picture of just the rails because the Deutsche Bahn is always late or doesn't get there at all. Fuck them!

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Ship_Fucker69 t1_jac4jqf wrote

We have the same bucket ass trains from the 80's in my country. Older some of them even.max speed like 90km/h.

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ragra64 t1_jac5i15 wrote

Here is a technical designer from stadlerrail. You have to give America credit for at least starting to order Swiss trains, especially for California.

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NeganLannister23 t1_jac7n5k wrote

They're good but people keep pelting stones at em for some reason

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Re0ns t1_jac7smw wrote

The Chinese one isn't even carrying passengers, claims to be the fastest in the world despite the Japanese SC Maglev. The new Chinese maglev probably is a rehashed version of the one in Shanghai, purchased from Germany.

Same goes with all the other high speed trains. The majority of them are purchased and copied versions of foreign trains. And new ones are just rehashed frankensteins of the most successful high speed trains across the globe.

Yes I fucking despise the CCP and it's puppet companies such as the CRRC that made the maglev train in the photo. Hong Kong already had some low quality new trains made by copying older Japanese trains. And also the even decreasing freedom and voices for democracy in Hong Kong. I already expect Chinese bots to downvote me.

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Golett03 t1_jac8uvm wrote

Which type? Road or track?

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DepPet_syw t1_jacaofk wrote

German here. With the state of The Bahn, they might as well be exploded

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Clean_Web7502 t1_jacbcey wrote

Spain: We made them to big during the design phase time to remake the blueprints

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Briffy03 t1_jaccdic wrote

Replying to tigerDer_1 (#2,096,198)

In france we got a special collumn on display called something like "unusual" it should be used to display delays or accidents, but those are so frequent this collumn is used almost only to display "on time" as this is so rare

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radznschel t1_jacexo7 wrote

Germany should just be a picture of empty rails.

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Reasonable_Still_764 t1_jacf5fn wrote

Im 100% certain that korean train is a decepticon and u can't convince me otherwise

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MarcoIstToll t1_jacfanw wrote

Why is there a german train without any delay? this is some serious bs

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sumdumguy1966 t1_jach8fm wrote

SoCiaLism doesn't wOrK. As we pick up the poorly maintained tracks that caused another disaster caused by the greed of capitalism. Meanwhile government funded bullet trains efficiently move the SoCiaList populus.

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CaptnVwap t1_jaclsg6 wrote

German train rides always end with a shower

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VentingID10t t1_jacmkog wrote

It isn't only the train engines themselves that are antiquated in the USA, it's the tracks. I took a train ride with my kids for "fun" and it slowed down considerably at one point for several miles in the state of Pennsylvania. (I'm talking 5 mph / 8 kmh.) When I asked why so ridiculously slow, the train steward said it was because the tracks were very old and too curvy that we might derail at higher speeds. Um ..gulp...okay.

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Big_Papa_Puff t1_jacngvb wrote

Replying to sumdumguy1966 (#2,102,212)

We've passed more infrastructure bills than I can remember in my lifetime. The politicians failed us. Not the political system. There's no absence of greed anywhere in the world. What we do have is an absence of accountability in the U.S.

None of those nations are socialist by the way.

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nowaybrose t1_jacopkz wrote

Replying to mtgkajhit (#2,103,670)

Yeah I think if we are gonna get serious about rail travel in the US we need to build our own passenger lines. One thing I’ve always wondered is why we can’t just use the median/side road of interstates for new rail construction? Does anyone ever discuss this? You could wave at cars sitting in traffic! The land is already there for the taking. It would be a great project for job creation and jobs are also needed to maintain trains/rails and run the train service. Seems like a win. But hey let’s keep dumping trillions into concrete for cars…one more lane should do it

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NewMasterpiece6271 t1_jacvwvk wrote

I had planned to take a cross country trip in the US via train. Then we learned 12 hour delays were not uncommon and there was a good chance we would arrive at our destination in the middle of the night instead of 5PM.

Every few years the US spends millions to bail out the airline industry, but people get upset when when spend money on trains.

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Ddranoel t1_jacwx1l wrote

The German train wouldn't even show up....

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Fungi_Finder t1_jaczwj6 wrote

You're comparing bullet passenger trains to cargo trains you stupid fucking donkey

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Icy_Practice7992 t1_jad0czr wrote

Texas would have it, but it's a domain issue. People don't want to give up their land.

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General-Resist-310 t1_jad1d7a wrote

ICE is the fastest train in Germany, and yet it still feels like it crashed due to it's name, so often it comes too late

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banana1703 t1_jad7q1m wrote

I'm from switzerland and we make fun of the german trains, even germans make fun of german trains (DB)

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pantherghast t1_jad80nr wrote

While the US could use an update to their railway system... you are comparing passanger bullet trains to a freight train...

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kunfusedpsyko t1_jad894h wrote

Now show me your cargo trains. We rarely ride passenger trains here.

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Larcemox t1_jadmlfz wrote

Do you guys have trains? that's cool.

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Extension_Building19 t1_jadoo3s wrote

Well considering these first several images are passenger trains and the ones that keep derailing are commercial transport trains lol our passenger trains dont derail quite as often 😂😅

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amaxlucy t1_jadp3j1 wrote

My “train” is a Range Rover. Always on time luxury.

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Razorbacklama59 t1_jadq1y1 wrote

In a few years my province will have the world's fastest train

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DotFX t1_jadrjpb wrote

The last I remember we killed a Tzar in one

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QuuxJn t1_jadym5x wrote

Replying to tigerDer_1 (#2,095,982)

I've been to Italy twice in the last year by train and I must say I was positively surprised.

The longest delay we had was 15min, wich we caught up again by the time we got to the final destination.

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jaredmgMTL t1_jadzc54 wrote

Anglos will refuse to acknowledge anything that France created or perfected and will go out of their way to do so.

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PossiblyLinux127 t1_jae08lg wrote

Most of the us didn't think that far ahead. (You can't put a train though a building)

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QuuxJn t1_jae0cue wrote

Replying to ragra64 (#2,098,645)

Serious question. Do you sometimes intentionally design stuff in a way that it's a huge pain in the ass to fix? Like, have you ever tried to change a sprinkler in the electronic cabinets. Or a motor for the gap fillers.

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F1RE_F0XY t1_jae3dg4 wrote

The trains in Romania are a bet. You can get down in one piece or you can get down with your back broken because of the bad communist chairs and because of the bad railroad infrastructure. Also you have a very high chance of getting your belongings stolen. All of that plus a 2h delay and overpriced tickets.

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Erme_Ramos t1_jae6or2 wrote

When even Renfe is better than Usa trains, something is very wrong with them.

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MollyDooker99 t1_jae84ok wrote

The U.S. has the largest freight rail in the world…

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Kasgaan t1_jae8qnf wrote

better question, how's our atmosphere? HEHEHEHE hellllp ohio is dyiiiing

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Rumen77 t1_jaee7hc wrote

Pretty expensive to ride one in the uk but there is decent coverage across the country so they are alright I guess 🥴

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Pijany_Matematyk767 t1_jaehzya wrote

Replying to nowaybrose (#2,104,612)

Using the median might not be the greatest idea since then youll have to have train tracks cross the highway, and that will most likely require either a tunnel or an overpass (neither of which are cheap), Plus id guess the median isnt wide enough for 2 tracks. And theres also the risk of collision in case a bad driver fucks up. Trains would be nice but the median of a highway is probably not the place for them

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nowaybrose t1_jaekwke wrote

Replying to Pijany_Matematyk767 (#2,126,071)

Most of our medians in rural areas are quite large. The tracks could be elevated in tighter spaces just like we elevate stupid highway ramps 100ft in the air whenever needed (houston). Train can go over whatever it needs to. Trains I’ve ridden in china have all sorts of elevated tracks since many areas are densely populated. No it won’t be cheap but neither are 15 lane highways

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KaZe_DaRKWIND t1_jaem49q wrote

Other than the US one, those are all passenger trains aren't they?

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Pijany_Matematyk767 t1_jaeq4wv wrote

Replying to nowaybrose (#2,127,226)

One problem with this is getting the political will to make an elevated big highway is waaaay easier than getting the political will for a modern elevated train track

Depending on how straight the highway is, trying to have the track run parallel to it might require slowing down the trains on some turns

And we also have to ask if a track in the median with overpasses is cheaper than just running the rail track separate from the highway

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nowaybrose t1_jaf3rrc wrote

Replying to Pijany_Matematyk767 (#2,129,352)

Yeah the political part is what needs to change. No party really seems to be interested in helping people who can’t afford a car get around in cities or between them affordably.

The idea of running the trains along existing interstates is to avoid having to buy land or claim imminent domain. We only do that for oil pipelines I reckon. Fighting to run tracks thru peoples land would take decades.

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