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by drewcoo 335 days ago
Freight trains are still a thing. About 20 years ago Buffet bought BNSF.
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Retric 335 days ago
Thus the long distance travel caveat.

US Fright is doing ok, but it got heavily dependent on coal which is going away fast.

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WarOnPrivacy 335 days ago
In US, number of miles of rails only ever goes down.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/183410/united-states-cla...

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Retric 335 days ago
Removing redundancy is one way efficiency has gone up so much.

https://www.bts.gov/sites/bts.dot.gov/files/Figure1_5_0.gif

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