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KingBubbaBouy1 t1_j8owj5k wrote

Wow. I hate railroads. You never know what theyre hauling You could have tankers of poison flying right by your house!!

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travel_tech t1_j8oxe2o wrote

I mean, the same can be said of trucks, the cargo being on rail doesn't make it any more secretive.

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KingBubbaBouy1 t1_j8p5yfy wrote

Dude. A train can haul 1000x what a trailer can hold!!! Thats the difference.

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SeanMisspelled t1_j8r9hzm wrote

1000x is incorrect, but it is several hundred trucks worth of cargo per train. You're missing that there are still way more trucks than trains and trains carry less than 30% of freight shipped in the US, and most of that train freight is on a truck to get to the train, and to get from the train to the last mile.

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KingBubbaBouy1 t1_j8ti1mb wrote

There is not a house in America that is close enough to a highway at the exact same time several hundred tractor trailer trucks all crash with the same containers of toxic shit See my point?

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Necessary-Culture777 t1_j8tnp3l wrote

Instead, we should focus on making these rails safer. build infrastructure and increase maintenance. These private owned companies are cutting corners on safety for profit.

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