Anonymous
8/29/2024, 3:48:39 AM
No.2015727
>>2003971
IIRC it was the one-two punch of airlines eating the railroads' lunch on prestige long-distance routes, and the freight trains on the lines running trains so long they couldnt fit onto sidings and grant passenger trains the right of way, making routes extremely slow or fraught with delays. Not to mention serial disinvestment, such that potentially high speed railsets were running with/on tracks, signals, and overhead lines dating back to the turn of the century, which didnt help either.
IIRC it was the one-two punch of airlines eating the railroads' lunch on prestige long-distance routes, and the freight trains on the lines running trains so long they couldnt fit onto sidings and grant passenger trains the right of way, making routes extremely slow or fraught with delays. Not to mention serial disinvestment, such that potentially high speed railsets were running with/on tracks, signals, and overhead lines dating back to the turn of the century, which didnt help either.