How Freight Trains Connect the World
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Published 2019-03-05
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All Comments (21)
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He's moved on from planes to trains, boys
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I live in Canada and when you see a freight train coming through a rail crossing, you put your car in park. They’re sooooo long. 🤦🏼♀️
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Me: it’s midnight and I should sleep YouTube: TRAINS PLANES AND AUTOMOBILES BABY
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Amtrak: ok so I'm going to build some passenger railway. America: we don't do that here.
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Transport : EXISTS Wendover : imma nut
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Wow, that's a ton of freight for just four cents!
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Thank you for including both miles and kilometers. The most annoying thing is having to pause a video to do a math conversion.
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7:03 Every single railroad company intersects at Chicago. That’s one impressive transport hub, I can’t even imagine the city planning needed and logistics of that.
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Trains? I think you mean ground planes
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One of the few educational youtube channel with citations. This goes underappreciated :(
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meanwhile in japan: JR: "Tracks for passengers and freights are both mine"
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It's amazing how cheap and fuel efficient they are.
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Really must appreciate the effort to include both metric and imperial units in the video....!! U're awesome Sam!!!
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I find it interesting that this so reversed between Europe and the US. I once read a statement along the lines of "In the United States, cars move people and trains move freight, while in Europe, trains move people and trucks move freight." This is of course massively simplified, but there is some truth to it. Passenger rail is scarce in the US while there are few freight trains in Europe (which are apparently also a lot shorter). This might have to do with good passenger rail infrastructure in Europe that makes those trains, which are a higher priority, occupy the tracks. And high speed rail lines are in most cases not even allowed to be used by freight trains.
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Finally someone else who respects American freight trains, that’s my dream job, is operating them.
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There's an idiot driver swerving to exit at 8:32.
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Relationship ended with Planes. Now trains are Wendover's best friend
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The Planes of the Rails.
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You pronounced both "Wenatchee" and "Spokane" perfectly. As a resident of eastern Washington, I'm impressed.
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In Sweden where I live, 80% of all the tracks is electrified so the "1 gallon per ton of freight" fuel consumption is a lot less since our energy grid is based on mostly hydropower and nuclear energy Edit: But since it's electrified then you're not able to stack containers on top of each other
