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I’m a nationalized freight railroad!

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I've been snubbed :(

ahem.

I can't believe that mastodon would doubt the authenticity of my account

Worse, some of the people who actually believe in your officialness think that post is from a rogue intern who is about to get fired

I can't speak French what does this say?

It literally just says "come on! Jump in the water!"

You should not go swimming, it's fucking November

@amtrak-official

Oh my god, I have been blind to the possibilities for future Transit modes

That's a bus, stay on topic

bus rapid totoransit

I didn’t know a train could be an eldritch horror, but here we are.

The Call of C'thchoochoo.

Okay but genuinely, the dick riding for Brightline is unreal, American News Outlets genuinely think that all of the public and Public private partnerships are either fake or bad and will never get done, but the private entity that has little experience in railway management, they will manage to build a High Speed Rail Service that can't actually fund the project without massive tax payer subsidies will be able to solve all our problems because a private entity can be trusted with public infrastructure and one of the most Climate threatened cities in the nation that exists entirely as an entertainment venue is the perfect place to build a high-speed rail line.

And Brightline won't build Vegas to LA in 4 years they can't even build a simple traditional rail segment from Cocoa to Orlando on time, given they had to delay opening to December yesterday. So we have a private company build something for the Olympics that won't connect to downtown LA that isn't going to be done by the Olympics and is being praised on the work done by previous entities which is going to use billions of dollars in subsides ro build a railroad to fucking Las Vegas and yet nobody sees the flaws in this system

Oh and Brightline is only Profitable because it buys real estate and resells it assuming that home prices will go up from the train, which has been tried before, by the Florida East Coast Railway and by Penn Central when they started losing money and ridership in the 70s and surprise surprise that isn't a fucking sustainable business model and both ended passenger service or collapsed. And reminder the moment that Brightline starts to lose profit it is shutting down because it is owned by an investment group and they only care about profit not sustainability or the public good. We are funneling billions into an overhyped private venture run by people who aren't even from the rail way industry, they are from fucking Hotels.

The Republican party has been trying to kill Amtrak since its inception, purposely designing it to fail and forcing on it the profitability clause in that attempt to kill it. Every attempt to improve Amtrak by forcing the Freight Railroads to respect Right of Way Laws has been ignore or flat out ended by the courts. Amtrak is one of the last vestiges of the Great Soceity and New Left in American Governance, it is a public intercity rail company that operates over 20,000 miles of track, a miracle in a nation which failed to achieve public Healthcare. Brightline is going to be used to attempt to end Amtrak, the private market can better run trains anyways they'll say, ignoring every example. It has already begun the Republican House of Representatives this year proposed at 70% cut in Amtrak Funding, they want to privatize amtrak and that will end the last spark of American Passenger Rail. There are 2 possibilities either Amtrak is privatized as the Republicans hope, or Brightline Collapses and is Nationalized into Amtrak like the Auto Train before it. Because the current trajectory of both is unsustainable without intervention as the government refuses to fund Amtrak what is needed because of austerity politics and Brightline runs on real estate sales and government money being directed towards it in an attempt to kill amtrak. Don't let the shiny news peices fool you, Brightline will not save American Passenger Railroads, it is just another part of a 50 year saga of government disinvestment.

I might be pessimistic about this, I honestly hope I am, and I do still have faith in American Passenger Rail, it's just the constant advertising of Brightline by the News media and the attempts at co opting public money for a private project run by one of the wealthiest companies in the world really makes you a bit worried about the whole system. The Brightline west is a good project, I just don't trust the private market to do what is in essence a public service and the use of public money worries me more. But America could be entering a better age of rail, Brightline west, Texas Central and CAHSR promise real fully high-speed rail, and Amtrak is on track to restore an incredible amount of old routes and start service on new Key routes like the Front Range Rail, NLX and Heartland Flyer extension and the restoration of the North Coast Hiawatha and Floridian. But America stands at a tipping point in Rail and I just hope we make the right choices

Transphobes and homophobes, free one way tickets to the lunar surface available now!

we should give them free one way tickets to the solar surface instead i think

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The tracks we inherited from the New Haven go to the moon only, unfortunately

time to put the bright in Brightline babey

this could be us but, you know

If we did this to our trains but with half-dying oak trees and pigeons, would anybody be down for that? Just me? OK...