Infrastructure...upgrade our RRs!

These images are from a major Northeast commuter rail system, where trains run daily.
Ballast gone, spikes coming up and loose.
Does not say much for America’s rail network.
Does not say much for our country’s touted infrastructure.[image deleted][image deleted]

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QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

Who touts our infrastructure? It’s in shambles due to a half-century+ of underinvestment.

soar2newhighs ·

@QuixoticSoul I meant to say “ proposed infrastructure bill”.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@soar2newhighs Iirc, that bill includes $80 billion for fixing up existing railroads. You think we should be spending more?

soar2newhighs ·

@QuixoticSoul well if the railroads, Class 1 and perhaps class 2 and the commuter rails have been involved in the process then I’d have to guess the 80 billion you cite is sufficient. And I was commenting on the current state of our rail systems. I was not talking about Hi-speed rail system/(s). That’s another issue. And we’ve seen where that’s gone.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@soar2newhighs That money is for improvement and repair of existing rail lines, not new rail systems.

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