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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week 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 week ago

The Yucatan peninsula has an electric line too!

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

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

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