• @SomeGuy69
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    34 hours ago

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

      • @SomeGuy69
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        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.

    • Sunshine OP
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      69 hours ago

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

  • Rentlar
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    59 hours ago

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

    • Sunshine OP
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      29 hours ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        25 hours ago

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

        • Sunshine OP
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          25 hours ago

          The Yucatan peninsula has an electric line too!

  • Sunshine OP
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    210 hours 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.

  • @over_clox
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    -1010 hours ago

    Posted image is literally in grayscale (though the provided link is in color).

    • @abysmalpoptart
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      I think the original poster posted this intentionally as sarcasm because there is so little color in the image. If you look at the original image and look at the USA North east near new york, you’ll see a few meager lines that are various colors (as well as a few slivers in south and central america, and what looks like a dot in los Angeles). This is showcasing just how little electrified rail exists in the americas.

      It may not seem like it, but it is actually in color. I’m on mobile and am able to see it. If you’re not able to, it may be an issue with your app or method of viewing the post.

      • @over_clox
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        04 hours ago

        If you check the link they shared, it’s practically all orange, so they did not share the default view, nor a color legend to go along with it.

        • @[email protected]
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          yea ofc the map is orange, it’s showing the infrastructure type instead of electrification

          yk how maps work right?

          • @over_clox
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            13 hours ago

            Not entirely, not when the map site just kicks me back to Lemmy when I attempt to change ‘Style’

      • @over_clox
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        13 hours ago

        Thank you, very helpful 👍

    • Sunshine OP
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      810 hours ago

      Because the vast majority of the rail lines in the Americas are fossil fuel powered.

      • @over_clox
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        I checked your provided link, practically all the lines in the USA were orange, not black.

        • Sunshine OP
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          510 hours ago

          That’s for existing rails you have to click the electrification option.

          • @over_clox
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            -89 hours ago

            Then you should clarify that people should check the link if they want to see the colored map.

          • @over_clox
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            -119 hours ago

            Lemmy preview doesn’t care about that, you literally shared the grayscale version and called it colored.

            • Sunshine OP
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              59 hours ago

              Zoom in closer and you see the colour. Why are you so negative?

              • @over_clox
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                -89 hours ago

                Not being negative, just telling you what I see. Also, you didn’t provide a color code, nor did you suggest phone users to zoom in.

                • Sunshine OP
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                  Yay, I get more criticisms.

                  That’s why I said colour in the title and phone users already know they must zoom in on map data.