I’m curious about this map because I definitely live near passenger rail and it’s not showing here.
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Non-Amtrak line? I think this is Amtrak specific. There are a few bits of passenger service in the US outside Amtrak, but it wouldn't add much to this map.
The US map are all Amtrak services and the European map all mainline railways.
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Iberia needs to keep up, damn it!
They make up for what they don't have in volume by having crazy cheap and fast trains instead.
They also build them remarkably cheap as well. We should all be envious of Spain.
Portugal not included on account of being an Eastern European country
>Iberia
>Portugal not included
Their trains quite simply are not as good as the ones in Spain.
Because they are actually an undercover Eastern European country
Spain has the second largest high speed rail network in the world. They're doing alright.
High speed rail is worthless if you don't have the local rail to support it. That's where the most traffic occurs by far, with millions of passengers per day. Compare that with the capacity of a few dozen high speed trains and they're a mere drop in the bucket when it comes to mass transit.
Be that as it may, Spain is highly urban and are quite good at building things like Metros within their cities as well.
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Seriously what are they even doing, Siesta?
I'm more worried about all the lightning bolts Chicago can shoot out to the rest of the country.
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And it's crazy to think that Europe would fit into North America many times. I would like to see the NA city subways/trains added then compare them to Asia
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Where we're going, we won't need roads!
This needs to be higher. The US has the most rail in the world, at over 224,000 miles. Europe, by comparison, has 94,000 miles. That's one country having more rail than the total of a whole continent.
The map down in the meme appears to only be Amtrak.