Cars & Transportation: Rail: “Question: Why does the US have sucky passenger trains, while Europe, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, and Russia have better and faster trains?” plus 5 more |
- Question: Why does the US have sucky passenger trains, while Europe, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, and Russia have better and faster trains?
- Question: Where do the coaster trains go when the park closes?
- Question: Hey can someone explain me what is read here ?
- Question: I have seen videos of train climbing the elcahon pass with cows or cabless desiel locos in the center of the train.How do the control them?
- Question: Why no bullet trains in the US?
- Question: How much is a 65 yr old Lional train worth?
| Posted: 31 Aug 2015 05:51 PM PDT We've never really needed them until recent years. When I was a kid, you could buy a decent car for 50 dollars, fill it with gas for 25 cents a gallon, and insurance was optional, and cheap if you bought it. Now that trains would be useful, it would be too expensive to build the infrastructure and purchase the right-of-way. PLUS, people still prefer their cars, even with the expense. Commuter trains aren't profitable most places in the US.  |
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| Question: Hey can someone explain me what is read here ? Posted: 31 Aug 2015 10:34 AM PDT Having trouble with your homework? weight varies based on type of car 104,000 - 111,000 max weight |
| Posted: 31 Aug 2015 09:36 AM PDT i've always wondered the same thing, i'm not an expert so could be wrong. trains that are close together where there is only a driver in the first train, i think they have some kind of cable connection through each train, so when the driver in the first train does something, the same happens in the other cabs. for other trains where one engine is either at the back or in the middle, this would be a none controllable engine and would have a driver inside, so when there is a need for more power, the second driver will take the engine out of nutral and drive the engine, once the power requirement is gone (say they reach the top of a hill) the engine is put into nutral so it has no effect. the cabless locomotives/engines must have some kind of cable connection through all the cars so they can be controlled from the drivers cab/loco. |
| Question: Why no bullet trains in the US? Posted: 31 Aug 2015 12:39 AM PDT Cost per population density. It's not just a lack of will. It's a matter of dollars. With plenty of access to planes and buses and an excellent highway system, the incremental benefit to replace buses with trains is tiny. With current access to slower trains, the incremental benefit to faster trains is tiny. Have to read about the "Loop" proposed between LA and SF? The reason it *might* compete with planes is it would go nearly as fast as planes. In certain other countries they did not have an excellent highway system in place so there was benefit to faster trains. Also note that many of those countries were bombed to ruins in WWII so they had to build their entire infrastructure from scratch in an era just before really good buses and planes but with really good trains. They started own that road *and* they have much higher population density. |
| Question: How much is a 65 yr old Lional train worth? Posted: 30 Aug 2015 04:53 PM PDT |
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