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6. That's what I thought when I saw coverage of the derailment this morning.

Reply to magicguido (Original post)

Sun Sep 26, 2021, 12:18 PM

Sep 2021

At one point, they described how fast the train was. It's a 48-hour trip from Chicago to Seattle (2050 miles by car, about 25 hours driving time).

Suggesting that speed might have been a factor in the derailment, they said the train averaged 50 mph, but could go as fast as 80. I thought WTF? The rest of the world has trains going over 200 mph and we're still using trains that haven't been impressive since WW2.

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While our old trains crash; the rest of the World Overruns us with High Speed Rail [View all] magicguido Sep 2021 OP

This was great! Asia and Europe certainly have us beat... NurseJackie Sep 2021 #1

US won't be competitive as long as republicans have any power Merlot Sep 2021 #5

As the US continues to fall behind the rest of the world. We had a good run of it RKP5637 Sep 2021 #2

Albeit daunting task, consolidation of transit resources must happen lambchopp59 Sep 2021 #3

Love high speed trains. Rode one in Europe. Joinfortmill Sep 2021 #4

In France we travelled on the hi speed TGV train appalachiablue Sep 2021 #10

That's what I thought when I saw coverage of the derailment this morning. FoxNewsSucks Sep 2021 #6

I watch the Smithsonian channel show mighty trains kimbutgar Sep 2021 #7

We spent our money on various needless Wars magicguido Sep 2021 #8

the usa needs tracks dedicated to high speed not shared with freight nt msongs Sep 2021 #9