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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Yeah, living in a country you can travel from border to border on a train in 12 hours has some benefits to it

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

This would be possible in the US also if the government was willing to put money into bullet trains but like whatever I guess.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The people in the meme are at about Seattle and NYC, which is a little over 3k miles apart (by car). You'd need to be going 250mph for the entire 12 hours to make that distance. A quick google search says that the maximum operating speed of a bullet train is 200mph, but tests have been conducted at 275mph.

So, you'd need to go non-stop at 125% max speed to make the trip in 12 hours. Even if you went at 275mph, realistically you'd make a lot of stops along the way, which is going to make the average speed a lot lower. Trains are great, but the US is really big.

Bonus fact: a non-stop flight from Seattle to NYC takes about 5.5 hours.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

I love me some bullet trains, but there is a certain distance that makes planes way more viable.

There should be a lot more (and higher quality) high speed rail between cities of moderate distance, however.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

"planes .. viable"

continuing to have a habitable planet should maybe be worth more to you than saving max. ~10 hours of journey time getting from one side of a continent to another.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Chinese high speed train network operates at 120–240 mph, and their maglev (very short, very expensive, very fast train route from Shanghai airport to the city centre) had the record at 268 mph. Plus, railroad may be slightly shorter due to how it is designed if the road isn't near straight already.

But yes, 3000 miles is a lot and maybe 12 hours will not be achievable for a long time yet

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

3k.miles by car? Are miles by train different?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, it depends on where the roads and rails are built and how direct their paths are.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately, all the electric train startups were bought up and closed down by diesel train companies decades ago, and the majority of the rail lines are owned by freight companies as well. This is partly why public train transit is so bad: the government has to lease the tracks from the freight companies, who get priority on the lines over public trains, meaning that if there's freight traffic the commuter rail has to wait for the freight lines to go through first.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

decades ago? those people are all dead now. let's try again.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

If it’s germany, if one of you lives in the north and the other in the south, it’s cheaper to fly to Mallorca and meet there.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

If it's the UK it's cheaper to meet in a random ass village in Lapland. (Or Mallorca).

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I tried trains in Germany and Italy, the prices were crazy 🤣

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