But american freight trains are laughably bad too
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fishos@lemmy.world 2 months agoExcept that nearly all US rail is for freight. We hate PASSENGER trains. We freaking love freight rail.
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
fishos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes, but “we will avoid trains no matter what” is blatantly false. It’s terrible, but it is our main method of shipping freight from ports to inland cities.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
And semi rigs are…personal transport?
fishos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, the subject is shipping cargo. Try to keep up.
nulluser@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You were the one that brought passengers into the conversation.
fishos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah… Saying we don’t use them as much as… Freight. Try to keep up?
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Except that’s only 2% of freight by value.
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fishos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re looking at a different issue. I’m referring to passenger trains vs freight trains and you’re talking about freight trains vs semi trucks. I’m saying that the rail we do have, we overwhelmingly use for freight. It’s the primary reason we still have trains today in the US.
In regards to percentage of freight shipped by rail vs other means, I believe you that semis take a ton of that.