VIA doesn’t at the moment either. Frequent stops for freight trains. They are going to add a piece of track only for them in the next few years for the Quebec City Windsor corridor.
P.S Barely high speed anyways
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Damn those are large
lmao yes
And the same company whose trains are delayed because the freight companies are too reluctant to electrify and to make way for pax trains
Basically North American railroads
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What Indian Railways has in terms of sleeping coaches :
1AC (Basically just couchettes for 2 or 4 people) :
2AC (Couchettes for 4 without the doors but with curtains 
) :
(on older coaches which are being scrapped)
3AC (it’s just there I guess) :
(older coach)
3AC economy (cheaper 3AC) :
Shaynyan/Sleeper (3AC without AC) :
(They stopped making these a few years ago tho)
How fast do they go?
We have 180km/h due to the weather fluctuations here in Canada
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Yes, prestige class comes at a price tho…
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We’ve been over this before: The U.S has too many miles of track (much of which is in sparsely populated areas) to justify electrification.
In regards to the passenger trains having to stop for freight, the passenger trains (government run) use the rail lines that were built by the freight companies (privately owned). Now, before you say “why dosen’t the government use eminent domain to take the tracks?” well, the tracks have been privately owned since before the 1860s, and the US passenger rail network isn’t significant enough to make it worth while.
Yes, it is completely reasonable for regular regional/long-distance rail services to share tracks with the freight trains (since their operating speed is not significantly limited by that of the latter), however would it be operationally feasible for specific routes that are intended to operate as high-speed rail to receive their own designated sections of track to improve efficiency?
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Really the Acela is the only one that makes sense. Even something like NY to Chicago probably doesn’t have the demand.
San Diego to San Francisco is something that is in consideration but who knows what would come from that.
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So if that is the case, why isn’t there already such an existing system in place for the Acela?
I believe there is also a planned Texas Central Railway that is due to begin operations in 2026 (for now), is it likely that the rail line will actually see passenger service in the future?
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The max any train has done is 180kmph (Train 18/Vande Bharat).
Max operational speed is 160kmph for the new LHB coaches, 200kmph for Tejas coaches and 110kmph for the older ICF coaches.
How much?
Russia and India laugh in a corner
Then nationalize them and bring Conrail back or smth. Nationalization will work very well for any railroad, look at Austria, Switzerland, India, Japan etc.
Exactly
Why would they take the train when they have cAr’s and planes when trains get held up almost everywhere and are almost always delayed?
They won’t do that
Money bois, money
Maybe
We have significantly more track than Russia, and about 4x what you guys have (we have 160k miles compared to your 40k). And the Russian population seems to be heavily populated into just the cities, so while overall their population density is low, it’s not actually as spread out as the US is, and India isn’t even close to as sparsely populated as the US.
India is basically entirely colored, while the US is barely colored. Russia is similar to the US, but the population density in the west is greater than our density in the east.
No lol. Why would I want to fund yet another thing for the government to make even worse.
Also, I should point out (with the exception of India) that the rest of those countries are significantly smaller in population than the US, with Japan (the closest in pop.) being about 1/3. Austria and Switzerland having populations closer to that of Washington state.
Exactly. Why would you take the train. Flying is cheaper, faster, and can be more comfortable.
Even if you some how put a Japanese style bullet train on a route like that, a plane will still be faster.
Why would you want to take a 21hr train ride from New York to Chicago when you could fly it in about 2hrs or drive it in 12hrs?
In the US, trains exist for two purposes: moving freight at low costs and being a sightseeing experience. Unless you’re taking a metro, you don’t ride the train in the US as a form of transportation, the train ride is a tourist attraction. It’s a low stress way to see the sights that the US has to offer.
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*67,368km or 115,000rkm
Konkan, Thar and northeast :
Population generally has nothing to do with this. You build a good network, people will use it, regardless of population.
Distance between NY and Chicago : 1271km
Max operating speed of most HSR networks : 320kmph
Time = D/S = 1271/320 which is approx/minimum 4 hours without stops and a high average speed
I don’t know about the USA, but here you need to be at the airport 2 hours before boarding, so that itself is 4 hours, not taking into account travel time and delays.
Rule of thumb here is 30mins (minimum) for domestic 1.5hrs for international. Granted, 30mins is cutting it really close depending on the airport, but that’s just a generalization and varies.
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Oh
Compared to US states, those make up a tiny area. Konkan is ~11,000mi² with a population of over 28m. The US state of Nevada is 10x that size (~110,000mi²) with a population of only 7.5m.
So by comparison, this “desolate” region is very densely populated as opposed to much of the western US.
More Western US States
Utah: ~85,000mi², pop.: 3.5m
Colo.: ~ 105,000mi², pop.: 6m
Ariz.: ~114,000mi², pop.: 7.7m
Wyom.: ~98,000mi², pop.: 580k
N. Mex.: ~122,000mi², pop.: 2m
Mont.: ~148,000mi², pop.: 1.2m
Idaho.: ~84,000mi², pop.: 2m
Wash.: ~72,000mi², pop.: 7.7m
Oreg.: ~99,000mi², pop.: 4.2m
Cali.: ~164,000mi², pop.: 40m
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Very much, but there are swathes of absolute nothingness (or thick jungles) in that region and also in the Thar, which only has a few border outposts and stuff.
150-180 on the new Siemens fleet we have arriving in the next few months
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