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   EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 13:24:29 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

   try driving over 12 hours to not even be all the way across texas...

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     GoonPatrol (goonpatrol@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 13:24:28 JST GoonPatrol

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     @EdBoatConnoisseur What the US actually needs is a built out train network. I should be able to book a train car with a bed, get on at night and wake up to be at my destination.
     
     Whites figured this shit out hundreds of years ago, it's not hard. I have been to Russia, thats how you get around the large landmass of the country and this was common all over Europe before the shitskin invasion.
     
     You buy a ticket for a car with 1, 2, or 4 beds a cabin and they have a dining car with a full kitchen for meals. The more fancy trains even have showers or make stops along towns with amenities.
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 13:24:28 JST djsumdog

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     Early passenger trains were more of an advertisement for freight companies. With the growth of airports, it just became uneconomical. People praise the Russia system but it's pretty highly subsidized. AmTrak and Australia's passenger system are about equal really (except in Australia you can pay to put your car on a carrier if you're moving cross country).
     
     It's partly a federal funding failure for AmTrak (a funding failure a few of those $5 billion payments to Israel could have fixed) and party a density issue. Florida does have high speed rail now, which is pretty amazing considering Caltrain's high speed network went billions over budget and never really got started.
     
     Several companies talks about a high speed from Nashville->Chattanooga->Atlanta, but the people shot that down pretty quick. No one wanted all those commuters.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 13:27:52 JST Hoss Delgado

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     • GoonPatrol
     Amtrak sucks because the government can't do anything right.
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     Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 13:33:27 JST Hoss Delgado

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     And also actually make it more economical that flying.
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     Frondeur (frondeur@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 13:33:28 JST Frondeur

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     @Hoss @djsumdog @EdBoatConnoisseur @GoonPatrol they shouldve given it a cooler name like eagle express...