sexy_peach@feddit.de to Fuck CarsEnglish · 2 years agoA map of abandoned and out-of-service railroad lines in the USfeddit.deimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up149arrow-down11
arrow-up148arrow-down1imageA map of abandoned and out-of-service railroad lines in the USfeddit.desexy_peach@feddit.de to Fuck CarsEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-square[object Object]linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-22 years agoYeah doesn’t the US have like half the amount of rail it originally had in the 1940s?
minus-squareMuad'Dibber@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoYep. My mind was blown when I read a book from the 1920s (I think it was a Jack London one), and rail took the main character from NYC to San Francisco in like 3 days. US coast-to-coast travel in < week was pretty standard 100 years ago.
minus-squarekroldenlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoWas that the episode where he got a job as a bell hop at a hotel and met Sam Clemens?
Yeah doesn’t the US have like half the amount of rail it originally had in the 1940s?
Yep. My mind was blown when I read a book from the 1920s (I think it was a Jack London one), and rail took the main character from NYC to San Francisco in like 3 days. US coast-to-coast travel in < week was pretty standard 100 years ago.
Was that the episode where he got a job as a bell hop at a hotel and met Sam Clemens?
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