Excellent video. 60 years later and railroads are still a vital part of our economy. Kind of amazing considering the advances in technology and rail is still doing its thing.
Railroads were given much of the rail rightaways and have been subsidized by taxpayers since almost the beginning and still can't deliver on time with an acceptable accident rate. We should have moved passengers to overhead high speed monorails long ago using those same rightaways just breaking off to go to local stations, leaving the slow freight on the main tracks below.
"Space Cadet". Good username. Railroads have been one of the largest taxpaying industries in country. The railroads long ago pad the government back for their land grants in the 1800's. The railroad accident rate has been in a constant decline since about 1995 and is now the lowest in history for fatal crashes. Railroads have been winning freight traffic back from long haul trucks because of their on-time deliveries compared to trucks fighting the heavy traffic on freeways, something the government built. And who exactly was supposed to pay for this nationwide system of monorails? The railroads, that were rarely profitable in the 1950's? No, it would have to be done by the taxpayer. And what exactly would have been gained by constructing monorails. Even now, the longest monorail in the world is only 60.8 miles while the longest maglev lines 19 miles. Both of these systems are in China and both were built by the government. The technical and financial issues with maglevs make it impossible to built a nationwide system. Typical monorails have no speed advantage over high speed trains already in service in many parts of the world, but they do have horrendously high costs of maintenance, another good reason why no country has thousands of miles of monorails in service. Building high speed rail lines for passengers might make sense, but you can't build a high speed line that competes with jets for long haul routes. Long distance commuter serve the likes the Northeast Corridor where we already have trains running at 120-150 mph. Other high speed lines with speeds of 220 mph are in the works for lines where passenger traffic will support them. That's a faster speed than any monorail. It sounds like you actually know very little about railroads.
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Excellent video. 60 years later and railroads are still a vital part of our economy. Kind of amazing considering the advances in technology and rail is still doing its thing.
Great History! Thanks for producing this.
3:49 Awesome American Railways Documentary Movie. Thanks Mate. X
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👍👍Excellent Vid,Thanks.
Lots of technologies already available in that time, impressive!!!
Somebody's bucking for a Govt subsidy.
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This footage shows the early days of continuous welded rail.
Diesel locomotives really took the railroads by storm!
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Railroads were given much of the rail rightaways and have been subsidized by taxpayers since almost the beginning and still can't deliver on time with an acceptable accident rate. We should have moved passengers to overhead high speed monorails long ago using those same rightaways just breaking off to go to local stations, leaving the slow freight on the main tracks below.
"Space Cadet". Good username. Railroads have been one of the largest taxpaying industries in country. The railroads long ago pad the government back for their land grants in the 1800's. The railroad accident rate has been in a constant decline since about 1995 and is now the lowest in history for fatal crashes. Railroads have been winning freight traffic back from long haul trucks because of their on-time deliveries compared to trucks fighting the heavy traffic on freeways, something the government built.
And who exactly was supposed to pay for this nationwide system of monorails? The railroads, that were rarely profitable in the 1950's? No, it would have to be done by the taxpayer. And what exactly would have been gained by constructing monorails. Even now, the longest monorail in the world is only 60.8 miles while the longest maglev lines 19 miles. Both of these systems are in China and both were built by the government. The technical and financial issues with maglevs make it impossible to built a nationwide system. Typical monorails have no speed advantage over high speed trains already in service in many parts of the world, but they do have horrendously high costs of maintenance, another good reason why no country has thousands of miles of monorails in service. Building high speed rail lines for passengers might make sense, but you can't build a high speed line that competes with jets for long haul routes. Long distance commuter serve the likes the Northeast Corridor where we already have trains running at 120-150 mph. Other high speed lines with speeds of 220 mph are in the works for lines where passenger traffic will support them. That's a faster speed than any monorail.
It sounds like you actually know very little about railroads.
What other like industry builds their own power?
To bad it’s not that way now days huh