Your thought?
They are bringing Shinkansen to Texas
Nathaniel Baker
Logan Baker
what's the point?
Owen Miller
add some eye to the side and it looks like pepe
Eli Jones
>inb4 the company goes bankrupt because nobody uses it
Aiden Nguyen
this country is incapable of completing any sort of public infrastructure project.
>inb4 interstate
don't care
Ryder Turner
Seems like the worst place to build a train. Why not on along the east coast cities
James Fisher
public transport is for nonwhites and disgusting citycucks
Jackson Morris
That's pepe
Kayden Long
finally.
maybe after this success which can create a dallas-houston axis, americans will finally give high speed trains a shot.
Joseph Wright
Full shinkhansen is probably unlikely. With the way Texas is fighting this project is is probable Nippon-Shayro will have to fold and play it safe by using their single-level USA spec diesel multiple-units. They have a top speed of ~150 mph which qualifies as "high speed rail" in America. This is because Governor Abbott's primary complaint is that shinkhansen trainsets are incompatible with American rail systems. Even though this argument is of extremely weak merit, it's enough to cause a lot of technical bullshit. Why bother when N-S already supplies perfectly usable trainsets, which can also be made in their Moline, IL plant.
Liam Phillips
This is rather unfortunate because fifty years ago, the train from Dallas to Houston was the fastest train west of the Mississippi. SP GS-2s hauled all-aluminum multiple-unit coaches up to 106 mph average, utilizing experience SP learned in building their earlier gen system in California. Diesels averaged 110 mph. All scrapped, dismantled and destroyed by 1965 when SP began formally asking the government to quit the business and abandon the line. Texas permitted it, although California's equivalent system between SF and LA did not - although that train only averaged 60 at best and had a number of tight curves reducing speeds to 15. This latter situation was declared intolerable in 2008 when California voters explicitly voted for a high-speed rail program.
Lincoln Sanchez
texas will not allow this kind of communism
Justin Gonzalez
kek
Alexander Rodriguez
Any true american patriot would sabatoge these projects, They are a slippery slope into bugman podpeople civilization.
All this country needs is cheap gas and cars.
Charles Phillips
just tell them these trains will carry money and gold to rob
Jacob Hill
somebody should make "i hate the antichrist" meme but with americans and trains
Isaiah Ross
i doubt it will even funded
even the peak blue state cant even build a normal passenger train
Ian Taylor
From California's Central Valley, but representative of a typical late SP situation: a 7-car passenger train using only standard coaches (tankless toilets, no buffet, no lounge or dome cars) and a reassigned freight locomotive patiently awaits it's turn onto the main line. Top speed around 50. Passengers would watch traffic on the adjacent freeway pass them at 75. Following nationalization, service to Los Angeles ended as space on Tehachapi Pass couldn't be reliably purchased from SP. Almost all SP passenger service was gone by this point, relegated only to long-distance passenger trains that terminated in Los Angeles. Amtrak pieced some parts back together, mostly from the competing ATSF, but generally there was no interest by the Texas state government for such a program. Resources were allocated to states that did want service, and in regards to the former SP system ("former" as SP had successfully merged with several other companies now) notably California.
Texas wouldn't revisit high-speed rail again until France's Alstom did a study in the 90s, but when attempts were made to solicit funding the state legislature had it shut down for being a useless, private-sector corporate welfare subsidy. Which is around the time California began seriously studying electrification of it's system.
Jaxon Wood
The only trains that should exist in America are city subways for aesthetics and old timey freight trains for the train autists to jerk off to. These soulless modern silver dick trains are a disgrace. I am not worried though, as I know American incompetence and money wasting will defeat this shit. If California, the most forward thinking and woke state, fucked up their silver dick train project, than Texas certainly will
Samuel Myers
this is the peak of american passenger rail transportation
Joseph Jenkins