Despite America currently being an anti-train society, this transition actually took many decades to occur.

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Whatโ€™s that one in the middle? :marseyreading:

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Middle square?

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Yeah, kind of surprising that it was Atlanta, looked too Spanish or tropical to me.

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They should have kept the original name: Hotlanta.

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parts of grand central station look incredibly good. when you get over the smell of vomit and people masturbating in public its a good place

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/h/trains when boys

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no

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For many decades America was home to some of the world's foremost neoclassical and neogothic architecture

this is cope

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Not really, burgers love their neoclassical, all the major government buildings are it.

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trad architecture people are the most insufferable :chudsey: there are. they :soyjackwow: to any shitty derivative neoclassical garbage and :marseysneed: at anything with exposed concrete.

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agreed

Exposed concrete?

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Exposed bricks?

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We have a pretty train station from the 1890s in Portland. Unfortunately they built it in the neighborhood that was known at the time as "Skid Row" and now is called "Old Town" but has only gotten trashier and more dangerous since then.

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I took a train recently. It was pretty nice. The seats were big and the cafe had a pretty large selection of stuff at a not terrible price. The ticket itself was 50 dollars round trip. The station I ended up at was really nice looking like the stations you have in the post.

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My biggest lament is that Metra doesn't take you to Union Station, if you want that you have to take the Hiawatha (genuinely r-slurred)

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The thing that's annoying about the train talk is both sides speak in absolutes. Yes, it is absolutely impractical to have the continental train lines, and airplanes are far cheaper and more efficient for those routes.

However, there are are a few stretches where trains would absolutely blow airplanes out of the fricking water. The big one is the Northeast Megalopolis going from Boston to DC. Sure, a plane from Boston to DC flies there in about 90 minutes, but getting from the airport into the center of town adds about 45 minutes at each end (minimum). If we had a 200-mph train line that stopped at Boston's South Station, New York Penn Station, and Washington's Union Station, you'd have more comfortable service without a baggage limit or need to go through TSA. The problem is the cluster frick of building any public works projects in the US.

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Boston to DC

Kinda exists with the Acela, but it's crippled by infrastructure. Lots of sharp curves & old bridges and tunnels (the one in Baltimore is from the 1850's I think, then the East River tubes) keep the trains from going 150mph anywhere other than a couple stretches. Also lmao at everyone in NYC looking at 2 crumbling tunnels from 1910 that like half the city+ anyone coming from the Southeast goes through and just scratching their heads for 15 years.

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A Boston to DC line gets talked about enough to be cliche, so it's worth noting that to all appearances it's impossible.

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Even Seattle-Tacoma-JBLM-Portland would probably be feasible given how goddarn many people clog up I-5.

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Reminder that California fricked up it's high speed rail program that it will now cost 100 billion to get made and it will never be finished.

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Whatโ€™s funny is Florida has decent privately run city to city train line thatโ€™s not over budget but youโ€™ll never hear about it on reddit.

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Of course it only works if you don't stop at every tiny town full of grifters threatening to sue, like all of California's proposals

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High speed rail would be a game changer. Frick Elon Musk.

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I thought rocket daddy had personal favorite bizzare concepts for high speed rails

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Rocket Daddy isn't stopping you from high-speed rail, incompetent government is

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i know it is hella inconvenient but i kinda want to go on one of those classic train trips across the country, like in the nice cars with the tables and big windows (idk what they are called) and watch the american landscape roll by :marseyusa: and be like "excuse me waiter, bring me a steak dinner" :marseywagie: this is what they have taken from you

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There are several luxury train routes operating in Europe. Here is one in Spain. They do cost a lot, though. You can even travel in the Orient Express if you fancy.

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Cross country with a full room is only like $2K. If I had like a couple weeks to make some stops it'd be a heck of a vacation.

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There is a youtuber that just reviews train rides like this.


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I mean, you can do that. Some family friends did it a few years ago, actually. It's not super cheap but it's kinda like a shitty cruise, just on a train instead of a big ship, and also obviously far fewer amenities (no pool).

I've thought about doing it as well, especially through the rockies. For me it's more of a time issue, it's just not worth the vacation days. Maybe some day, though.

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For you cheap you could do the Trans-siberian railway. You get even fewer amenities, share a sleeping compartment, and have a high chance of being stabbed by gopniks. But you are hammered drunk the entire time

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share a sleeping compartmen

If you aren't a peakpoor you can buy the tickets of the whole compartment and problem solved.

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But that would ruin experience. You need to make friends with the alcoholic criminal in your compartment so you have someone to eat salty fish and smoke cigarettes with while lamenting your depressing life

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So art deco.

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frankly, trainpunk needs to be a thing. so you roll out of bed, get ready for the day, step out of your house, and the 6:00 train to your work is right there. That's right, in this world there are no roads, just train tracks. so you get in the train and the conductor takes your ticket (he is riding on a miniature train between the rows of seats), making sure to tip generously (500 dollar tip bc inflation). The train starts moving and you light up a cigar. Across the aisle some broad catches your eye. You tip your hat (a top hat of course) and she changes seats to sit in front of you.

"Morning, miss. New rider?"

"Sadly, yes. I moved to this neighborhood looking for work after my husband was killed in The War" (World War III between China and the North African Reich. Neither side won but the train megacorp, trainco, used the opportunity to transform the landscape of asia and africa into a train-wasteland - a trasteland, if you will)

"Gee, Mighty sad to hear that miss ๐Ÿ˜Ÿ. Fancy a light?"

She accepts. Within a few short minutes, you are both in a private room having furious s*x. When she climaxes, she makes the sound of a train engine horn. "Blast it" you think to yourself. "An automaton". You take your M1911 out of your breast pocket and shoot her in the head. The womans mechanical heart slows to a stop, and you bring the robot to the conductor of the train. He gives you a reward of ten million dollars (roughly $50.00 in today's money)

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The aesthetic already is kind of a thing, itโ€™s called dieselpunk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieselpunk

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Dieselpunk is just edgy steampunk.

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WW2 was a real life dieselpunk war! :marsoyhype:

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:#marseyclappingglasses:

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>tip generously (500 dollar tip bc inflation)

>reward of ten million dollars (roughly $50.00 in today's money)

That tip is a quarter of a cent in today's dollar lol

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He deserved it (he was doing a really bad job)

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:#marseyxd:

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Unironically good but needs more opium abuse ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ‘Œ.

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This is one of the worst posts I have EVER seen. Delete it.

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Any adult who thinks trains are a good idea has never ridden urban public transit.

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kitty

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and you've never been to germany, or switzerland, or korea, cause it's definitely possible to do correctly.

and least whiter people can. brown ppl on the other hand.

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tell me you've never left burgerland without telling me

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Tell me youโ€™ve never rode an actual train without telling me.

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Why would I move to an inferior country when I can drive a car here lmfao. :marseylaugh:

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Don't forget all the majestic scenery you can enjoy while sitting in traffic.

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This is what rural shitholes in Europe look like too fyi, just with more goats and brown people.

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Public transit can be good if it's the right line. No one really minds taking the Chicago metro in, cta is another story but even that's not bad if it's not the red line.


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The only reason Metra is good is because it has 300lb black linebackers patrolling it constantly. Put a train in the US without armed guards and it goes to shit within a week.

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It's not just the Red Line that's a problem, it's the whole CTA system. It's too slow, too crowded, and too unreliable. I'm tired of waiting for trains that never come, and I'm tired of being packed into trains like sardines. I'm done with the CTA.

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Woah, this one almost got me @HeyMoon nice


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This one almost got you nice? More like this one almost got you barely passable.

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I'm tired of being packed into trains like sardines

she knows :marseysweating:

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Nah, as far as public transit goes trains are easily the best.

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Yeah they truly are. I've never seen a proper American passenger train but if they're organised like the subway trains ala New York I understand why Burgers don't use them.

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Trains are great so long as you don't have America's uhh socioeconomic factors

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Even in Portland we've got one short train line that's entirely in the suburbs and you never have any problems on it.

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I mean yeah but also those luxury cross country train rides seem kino asf tbh

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I dont think the homeless or inner city folks would be on those cross country train cars you see in movies/shows. Idk the price but someone said they still do these :marseythomas:

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trains are cool, thank you ayn rand for awakening my train fetish :marseyaynrand2:

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Why was she obsessed with trains, a business that has literally always been the product of government subsidies?

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she was a little r-slurred :marseyaynrandpat:

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I rather ride a train than a bus tbh. No road rules to follow and who knows you might just end up witnessing the flattening of a dumb b-word parked over the rails

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The trains that stopped in those stations could run as fast as the average car. In the postwar period, americans could actually afford cars that mogged trains in every measurable and unmeasurable way cope and seeethe about it niqqas

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The beautiful buildings could still have been used for other things.

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Like a baseball stadium to the great Houston Astros

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Yeah for me to have s*x in

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Recession dating tip 101: take an art hoe to get coffee and look at some architecture in your city and frick her in the men's bathroom. She will do this because you mentioned a few art buzzwords and she has low self-esteem

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Why only do this during a recession?

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You would have been the original Virgin train in the station

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Art strag

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All these buildings are wonderful examples of architecture but are fricking impossible to heat or air condition properly without it costing a fortune because they are designed to be large open spaces with constant air flow

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Make a good market though

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Cars are cool

:#marseyracist:

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:marseydepressed: why

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Cheap flights basically made most long distance train routes obsolete

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Trains just aren't feasible in sparsely populated countries. :marseyshrug: Only 5 American states have a greater population density than Japan's average for example.

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Bullshit. If anything, a more spread out population should lead to less imminent domain blockades for high-speed rail (looking at you, West Coast.)

Number 1 problem: our "cities" are spread out with bullshit suburbia. We give too much power to local governments, which are even more corrupt and willing to fight for the status quo than the rest of our government. They won't even legalize housing around transit hubs!

Look at what China is doing with their bullet trains. And that's under the rule of fricking commies. My beloved Burgerland has become so stagnant with apathy, ignorance, corruption, and incompetence, it feels like a fever dream nightmare.

There is no good reason we cannot make our rail system great again. Period.

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>took the Chinapill

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What about cities though have you ever been to Los Angeles? Millions of people and like one light rail line.

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If people can afford it and traffic jams aren't too bad I guess they'll still prefer cars. Like I can take a metro 10km away but it'll take me 10 minutes to enter and exit the station+15 minutes of travel, car will take me there in 20 and eliminate the walk to/from the station on both ends. So a 40 min transit becomes 20, more or less

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The whole point of transit is to allow you to live outside an urban hellhole, whisk in there for business/live events and zip out to the suburbs, without ever risking your car being mangled by the piss-stained hand of bums

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Idk these station walking/boarding times are also easily eaten up in a car too in the form of parking.

Bicyclecells stay winning.

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The problem with bicycles tho is that you're a massive straggot.

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Miss me with that b-word butt twig leg beta shit :marseyno:

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If you're spending any amount of time finding parking at your home that means you don't have a garage so you're poor and your opinion doesn't matter.

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I probably spend more on hair products than you spend on your mortgage.

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traffic jams aren't too bad

LA is just a traffic jam with people living in it. Place sucks, but any public transit would be immediately filled with California bums, one of the highest bum power levels in the US.

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Los Angelcel copium is copium unlike anything else in the world

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Come on baby itโ€™s time for your new strip mall

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Are they still building strip malls? They cant seem to keep businesses in them here

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Not like they used to. Amazon killed a lot of those


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Nobody in history has ever cucked more people than Robert Moses. I hate him so much it's unreal.

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I'd take 100 Moses over Jacobs spawning the modern NIMBY movement

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How to spot a rentoid: mentions disdain for NIMBYs instead of being one

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>early life

:#marseyschizowall:

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This is why I dont trust short people. Always scurrying about, avoiding people's gazes. They are literally hiding right under our noses. What are they doing down there anyway? No doubt they are stealing things from our pockets, but what other crimes are they committing? Kidnappings? Murders? Treason? What are they plotting?

Snapshots:

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