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These automatic trucks work better when we put them on rails (lemmy.world)
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[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The US has had a transcontinental railroad network for over a century.

Sure, now try and figure out the expense and time required to build another one NOW, not in 1890 but in 2023. The right of ways alone may take you until 2123 to get sorted out and I really suspect that the Chinese aren't going to show up to work for pennies a day to build the thing.

The passenger service was one of the conditions for the land grants.

We aren't talking about Passenger Service. We're talking about Cargo Service and since we already have one TC Rail System it follows that the meme is agitating that we build another one.

It would take decades and cost billions, probably tens of billions.

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