Is it normal that i want the us gov't to invest in a massive railway system?

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I was hoping that we Americans could get the American government to build both a Trans Atlantic Railway System as well as a Trans Pacific Railway System. Basically, we could start of the eastern coast in the state of Maine, Connecticut, or Massachusetts (Oregon, California, or Washington on the West side) and extend both railways to respective continents:
Trans Atlantic Railway is to connect to Eurasia, Antarctica, and Africa
Trans Pacific Railway is to connect to Africa, Australia, and South America

First, the railroads could be built and as they're built, steel tubes could surround all the railroads in order to protect the Trans Atlantic and Trans Pacific Railway from damage by storms. Then after all railroads are built, they can extend into every Capital of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and even extentions into Antarctica (to make access to research stations more easy).

What do you guys and gals think? Pretty good idea, huh? I think so. :)

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  • shuggy-chan
    9 years ago

    it will never happen is our lifetime.

    Unfortunately 2 things work against that idea. #1 most of our states are bigger then most countries. making an effective and efficient Rail system that much harder to do

    #2 the "american dream/ideal" was to blame for many things wrong with our culture. everything was about status and "keeping up with the jones"

    after the boom post WWII it was all the status to go from the big house and yard with a picket fence to eating meat from like every other day to 3 times a day. To everyone owning a car.

    The US is fundamentally build on everyone owning cars and the roadways and cheap oil prices. Even now USA's fuel prices are twice as low as other countries. If you really want a mass transit railways you need to live in a large city really

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    • RegGuy
      9 years ago

      Whoa, I think that is your longest post ever!

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      • shuggy-chan
        9 years ago

        nahhh not even close, but normally i just drop s one tow liners so yeah

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  • green_boogers
    9 years ago

    Planes are cheaper, so everybody flies. Ocean freight is moved with lower cost by container ships. Your idea would never come close to paying for itself.

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  • KeepsakeDoll
    9 years ago

    So expensive.

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
    9 years ago

    theres already amtrak in the states and plenty railroad in asia and europe. railroad be a boomin industry in the states right nowbut for freight only

    about goin under oceans, steel rusts. are these tubes gonna be stainless? that won't be cheap and stainless still gits ate by salt after a while

    do yall have any idea what the pressure is at the bottom of the sea? tons and tons per square inch. yall gonna need a couple feet thick steel to keep from squishin like a pingpong ball under a walmart patron. how yall gonna lay it down there? how yall gonna join lengths together? remember yalls talkin tons of steel per foot of length and yallre talkin thousands of miles. thats a fuckload of steel

    what happens when thays an earthquake or even normal plates a movin round? how yall gonna supply air and cool a diesel locomotive down there? what happens when a train breaks down at the bottom of the pacific ocean? whos track dimensions yall gonna use? thay gots different ones on different continents

    whos gonna go down there and plug a leak when it happens? yallre talkin many thousands psi a thousand miles away and many thousand feet down. yall can go walkin down there and try drivin a wooden plug in that shit. ill wait at the tunnel entrance

    oh, whos gonna pay billions or more for a train to antarctica? thays only so much money to be made by a studyin penguins

    nice thought but it prolly aint gonna happen

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    • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
      9 years ago

      oh and a couple other thangs

      yall know how hard it is to lay down a railroad crost a mountain pass on land, much less to drive a train crost it? thays mountain ranges under the sea too. yall gonna hire aquaman as a surveyor?

      what the fuck happens if theres a fire on a train halfway crost the ocean? people die when thays a fire in a mile long highway tunnel, imagine this shit

      wheres all the steel comin from? thays no big steel mills in the states no more

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