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    2 years ago

    Yeah doesn’t the US have like half the amount of rail it originally had in the 1940s?

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      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.

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        Was that the episode where he got a job as a bell hop at a hotel and met Sam Clemens?