• Jerkface (any/all)
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    2 days ago

    It was totally feasible to run a rail line to every single grain elevator in every rural community. It was infeasible NOT to. If you can’t get to your local agricultural distribution infrastructure, you can’t do agriculture in the first place. So yeah, why can’t rural communities all be served by trains?

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      There isn’t a grain elevator on every farm, farmers transport grain to them on trucks. So yeah, passenger rail as frequent as grain elevators would be great. Still need cars to get there.