- k_o_t ( @k_o_t@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 year ago
another day of thanking god i don’t live in amerika 🙏😊
- [object Object] ( @object_Object@lemmy.ml ) English5•1 year ago
Yeah doesn’t the US have like half the amount of rail it originally had in the 1940s?
- Muad'Dibber ( @muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml ) English4•1 year ago
Yep. My mind was blown when I read a book from the 1920s (I think it was a Jack London one), and rail took the main character from NYC to San Francisco in like 3 days. US coast-to-coast travel in < week was pretty standard 100 years ago.
- krolden ( @krolden@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 year ago
Was that the episode where he got a job as a bell hop at a hotel and met Sam Clemens?
- pingveno ( @pingveno@lemmy.ml ) English4•1 year ago
- Jakob :lemmy: ( @jakob@lemmy.schuerz.at ) 3•1 year ago
What a tragedy
- Jake Farm ( @Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ) English3•1 year ago
Nationalize the railways!
- goryramsy ( @goryramsy@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
I’ve always wanted to try building one of those track running cars, they look really cool!
- petrescatraian ( @petrescatraian@libranet.de ) 2•1 year ago
@sexy_peach does that include tram (streetcar) tracks as well? 😂😂
Would that be even visible on a map in this scale?
- petrescatraian ( @petrescatraian@libranet.de ) 2•1 year ago
@PolandIsAStateOfMind Hah! I know, just kidding. But probably on such a map you’d have various dots representing the cities that partially or totally ripped off their tracks (or rendered them abandoned)