You’d think. But the truth is throughout the West and Midwest, almost every town has or has had a rail line.
So what’s gone wrong? Pretty much the same thing that’s gone wrong with America in general, big corporations realized shipping to big cities is way more profitable than carrying passengers from small towns. Particularly because most people prefer a car over the train.
We have a ton of dead rail lines just waiting to be revitalized.
![[meme] Trains are 100000x easier to electrify and automate than cars, so why does everyone keep talking about electric and driverless cars?](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/11c37658-7c32-4cc2-b12c-6ced348bd09d.png){kind=link}
You’d think. But the truth is throughout the West and Midwest, almost every town has or has had a rail line.
So what’s gone wrong? Pretty much the same thing that’s gone wrong with America in general, big corporations realized shipping to big cities is way more profitable than carrying passengers from small towns. Particularly because most people prefer a car over the train.
We have a ton of dead rail lines just waiting to be revitalized.