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[–] Tar_alcaran 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ouch, I didn't realize it was so little.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

It’s why we gotta demand of our leaders to commit to electrification of the lines.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A tiny pink line will appear if you were to zoom in to Mason City, Iowa, USA.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nice find! I thought America only had it for New England and California.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Many of the big, blue cities will have some color if you zoom in. But only to commute within the area

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The Yucatan peninsula has an electric line too!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn USA that's a shame. Zero fucks given of you guys.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For more mountainous or thick forest areas this is understandably. It required combustion engine trains, simply because of steep mountains, where it's difficult to put down power lines or forests with a lot of trees who can easily destroy power lines. USA however is mostly flat. Looking at some like Austria or Swiss, if I see this correctly, they also are on a good way. Here we have a lot of hybrid but in general our train transport is a mess of mixed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The purple line is surprising in Venezuela as they have abundant oil, I guess they want to export the oil at higher prices to other countries.