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quatregats · 2 years

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Hmmm I have been looking into the Boston & Maine Railroad for Reasons™ and reading about this is breaking my heart, like passenger rail service basically stopped being viable in the 1920s because of automobiles and most of the rail network is gone at this point, which makes me want to bite things, but also I’m looking at maps of what the lines used to be and yes I do get that this was the only form of transport but I would kill a man to get extensive rail service between Boston, Montreal, Halifax, and most of Vermont/New Hampshire/Western Mass the way that it was when these lines were in service. Like idk we talk a lot about how we want to make sure that rural areas are also served by public transit and that we want rail lines to more areas of the country and stuff and I’ve heard criticism about the disturbance/difficulty of creating those lines but the lines are literally there!!! There is infrastructure in place that you can build new lines over and it’ll serve the whole entire Northeast and it makes me so angry that we don’t get to have that because Cars™

#like yeah i do get that financial viability is a big issue and obv cars shouldn't disappear entirely but god. can you imagine #they had lines EVERYWHERE and now there's literally NOTHING that goes to those places #i hate this country so much i hate our dependence on driving like new england is small and not built for cars to the same degree #as other states but like it's still built for cars it's still not sustainable to run train services through here #i had only really read about british railroads up until now and those are much stronger and well-used #and hey look the modern day uk actually has trains connecting most places. who woulda thunk #anyways i thought maybe it would be nice and fun to learn about trains here because i love trains and i love boston #but lo and behold instead i am filled with a deep and insatiable rage #(also entirely side comment but god american locomotives are so much uglier than british ones???)#(maybe gwr has me brainwashed but i simply do not feel love and affection when i see an american loco)#well expect more b&m content at some point because i have in fact set out on a new Creative Endeavor involving it :')))#perce rambles #fucking superb you funky little engine

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