This video explains why U.S. trains are slow, unreliable, expensive, and don't go where people want them to go, and why the situation is not likely to improve. Interesting fact: Amtrak operates 300 train journeys a day, while France's SNCF operates 14,000 train journeys a day.
Why do trains suck in the U.S.?
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A train engineer in California took the Trolley Problem way too literally and did it bad
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