The red route makes sense, because you’re connecting two of the most populous coastal areas of the US to each other.
If you compare this fictional map to an existing map of freight rail there are a lot of similarities
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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
I’m no expert on US geography, but isn’t it like really dumb to put 3 train lines through desert? (the red, yellow and grey lines).
i can understand the coastlines (east and west) and maybe one in the south (the yellow line). what i basically don’t get is the rest.
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
tempest@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Those are hitting main populations between new York and LA plus the cities in Texas etc.
It roughly follows existing rail links
www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=96e…
Etterra@discuss.online 13 hours ago
It really needs to go across the northern states from Chicago to Seattle - that’s so much empty bullshit that would be so much faster to cross and could connect what passes for cities along that route.
nomy@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
BNSF operates a northern rail that connects Chicago to Seattle.