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Iron Spike

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WE WANT TRAINS

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Lolo Upstart's avatar Lolo Upstart @foxymoxie.bsky.social
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Went to Europe for the first time last year and yes. Trains and healthcare!!!

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upfromsumdirt's avatar upfromsumdirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
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so often we've wanted to take some alow, meandering train ride for the joy of it and end up having to do geographical trigonometry trying to line up which plane to take to catch an uber for the 2 hour ride to the nearest train—but, by the time we figure it out, all our free time is exhausted!

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*TRAINS TRAINS TRAINS* (/jk)

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Hylen S's avatar Hylen S @hylen26.bsky.social
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Trains.

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Vincent Becherer's avatar Vincent Becherer @vincentbecherer.bsky.social
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TRAINS! Give me Chicago to DC!

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Francis's avatar Francis @datafran.bsky.social
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But also trains shouldn’t need to be profitable! They’re a public service! Fucking hell capitalism sucks so bad.

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Fetish Artist's avatar Fetish Artist @fetishartist.bsky.social
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And despite appearances, trains are VERY profitable in the US. But they're for freight. It takes a larger initiative to create a more profitable passenger train infrastructure in the US. It can be done.

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Martin Koenigsberg (MarTMar) (SteelyDab)'s avatar Martin Koenigsberg (MarTMar) (SteelyDab) @martinkoenigsberg.bsky.social
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Love me some @EuroStar!

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Sara Blake's avatar Sara Blake @sarablake.bsky.social
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I live in Ohio--we've wanted a "3 C" train for ages, something connecting Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati.

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JThomasAlbert's avatar JThomasAlbert @jthomasalbert.bsky.social
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I live in the (formerly) rural area outside what passes for the "urban center" of my city. There's been a boom over the past ten years and all the abandoned farms and former woods have been converted to developments & apartments. But everyone who moved in there works in the "urban center." (cont)

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Sinclair Lewis's avatar Sinclair Lewis @sinclairlewis.bsky.social
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In the TC we’re particularly excited to be able to take a convenient train to the Dells!!

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Sharon Z's avatar Sharon Z @sharonz.bsky.social
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TRAINS! TRAINS! TRAINS!

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W. L. Bolm's avatar W. L. Bolm @wlbolm.bsky.social
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It would be so (relatively) easy to connect my city in WI to this line 😭😭😭

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C. Larsen's avatar C. Larsen @larsenproject.bsky.social
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I want to cross the country in less than a week without going into the sky.

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Erin Fogg's avatar Erin Fogg @criminalerin.bsky.social
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When I think about how many Fort Wayne neighborhoods are right there on the side of the tracks exclusively used by Norfolk Southern to haul crude oil thru, and how those neighborhoods USED to be connected to the now gentrified downtown by those same tracks running passenger trains...

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)'s avatar Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social
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Still cursing Scott Walker for killing high-speed rail in WI, among many other travesties. A truly shitty human.

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And we want them now. And we want them to connect our cities. And we want them to improve our travel infrastructure and maneuverability as a population, not just corporate fucks that can afford them

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The people yearn for a return to the railways!

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Fourteen Kittens in a Trenchcoat's avatar Fourteen Kittens in a Trenchcoat @kittensinacoat.bsky.social
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the children yearn for the mines* (* = riding through a hole in the ground in a train)

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