Your English is great! Especially for being self taught basically, but I agree with your decision to caption videos only, it allows me to feel like I am riding in the first person!
I love my hometown of KC and just going down to Union Station is always my favorite thing to do. There is so much history to uncover and Science City gives something fun for the kids to do.
@@evancompton2769 I agree completely. Next time you go down to Union Station, look around at the building itself. The ceilings, walls, lights, floors and everywhere else. They don't build them like that, anymore.
@Walter Fink, That is very true and it’s kinda sad since rail travel used to be luxurious and the station gave you the first impressions of how the trip was going to go
I live in Birmingham, UK and very close to the old Alstom factory that is now sadly closed. Well over 100 years of train manufacturing history on that site.
Congratuliations with the 50K! Awesome Q&A! I've been following your channel for quite a while and I really like your views on the actual product; you don't just focus on the train itself and that's what makes this channel stand out in my opinion. Your views are broadening my horizon. Also much respect for doing this in English, you're working hard on it and it's clearly coming to fruition.
Congratulations, Thibault. I love your videos. Also love that you brought us on a little journey on the street car even in this Q&A video :D yay! All the best for the new year from Emily in England
Excellent video. I had no idea that you were living in the U.S. Thank you for introducing yourself in person. It is very nice to be able to see a real guy!
He clearly speaks English very well if he’s able to do a long video like this in it, given that English is not his native language! @simplyrailway Quelles langues parles tu? Français, l’anglais, et quelles autres?
Congrats on 50k! Your channel is awesome! I am just wondering if you are going to review the Caltrain Stadler KISS EMUs when they arrive in 2022/2023. I am from there and am super excited about the project! Thanks! :)
Merci pour toutes vos vidéos, j'attend toujours le vendredi 15h avec impatience :) Je préfère les sous titres que la voix/commentaire, ça donne une meilleure expérience comme si on y était 😁
I suspected that you might be French and now I have a proof. :)) It's not your accent that was terrible, but the audio quality, especially outside. You need a better microphone. Congratulations for the 50k subs! You definitely deserve them.
Being American we are mesmerized by the trains in Europe. Living in Miami I have access to a metro (which is terrible) the Tri Rail (commuter rail) I use it to transfer from MIA to FLL. We also have Brightline now which has the greatest potential to become the new renaissance of rail. I do agree with you Thibault we need to be educated on how to use the train and if the system makes sense it is much more efficient to leave the car at home. Also being American, I do love my F-150 lol
nice to see the person behind the videos and by the way your English is very well understandable but I'm also perfectly happy with videos without speech
I have ridden all the AMTRAK long distance train routes west of St. Louis and The Canadian between Vancouver and Jasper. i would recommend The Zephyr from Chicago to the Bay Area and for you to make connection to take the Coast Starlight to Seattle taking a shuttle or train to Vancouver and riding The Canadian to Jasper back and forth. I enjoyed your video. Kansas City has a fine train station and have enjoyed waiting for connection at night with no crowds and the grand hall lit up with Frank Sinatra music playing if they are still doing it. i have also ridden Eurostar several times between London and Paris and TGV from Paris to Nice. I am really impressed with the high speed rail and train stations of Europe. I enjoyed your video. Good luck on your travels! From St. Louis
Congratulations on 50k subscribers! I'm glad TH-cam recommended me your channel, I really enjoy traveling along with you! :) (I'll continue a bit in French as I'm Belgian and it's my mother tongue ;) ) J'adore regarder vos vidéos, je les trouve vraiment relaxantes (c'est un compliment! :D ) Si je peux vous donner un conseil pour votre futur voyage au Japon: si possible évitez l'été (très chaud et très humide, c'est l'enfer), allez-y plutôt en automne ou au printemps, c'est là que le pays est le plus magnifique, surtout pour des voyages en train! Ils font des voyages en train à vapeur spécifiquement à ces périodes pour voir le feuillage rouge des arbres en automne et les cerisiers en fleurs au printemps, le paradis pour les amateurs de trains ♥ Regardez "torokko train" sur google et vous allez voir que ça vaut le coup, bonne continuation! :)
i like seeing al your train journeys but in this video seeing the city and union station was great please try to show the cities where you go to it will be great.
Excellent! Congratulations on the milestone. If you come to Asia drop in to Australia. The Indian Pacific and tht Ghan are tourist classics. We havesomeothe trains too.
Congratulations for your great work! You should also cover greek railway network. It's not dense, however after 25th of March the main line between Athens and Thessaloniki will be covered also by the ETR470 (except the ICs). I think it's worth a visit here :)
The captions are hilarious, love that TH-cam thinks the sound of that freight train is music lmao. It is to some, that's for sure! For the most part I can understand what you are saying through your accent, only a few words here and there are more difficult for me. The captions clearly misunderstood your speech far me than me. Congrats on making a salary from Hearthstone by the way hahaha. These captions are seriously amusing!
Part of the problem is that even if we had good intercity rail in North America, most places outside the huge cities have terrible transit so you still need a car and thus you may as well just drive to the next city and not bother with the train.
You should check out Union Station in St. Paul, MN and if you spend the night stay at The Depot Hotel in Minneapolis. It is an old train depot and has a lot of history on the Old Milwaukee and Soo Line Rail. You can even take the green line train between the two cities.
Firstly, your English is good. Secondly, I love your videos as they are. I love reading those descriptions. They're peaceful and maintain the environment and integrity of the whole concept. And I like hearing ambient sounds and train sounds instead of commentary. The other channel mentioned, I did not like that. I find commentary obnoxious. Thirdly, if you ever go to Asia and specifically india, I've heard from my family there that there's a new sort of "bullet" train there and apparently another one coming. I can't remember the name, but I'd really love to see you review that one :) I hope you keep doing this as long as possible and keep the same amazing format.
he mentioned it. He was planning to, but currently he can’t because his visa is limited to the US and international travel is limited due to the pandemic.
I love the videos because there's no commentary. I have the choice of reading subtitles or ignoring them and just listen to the ambient sound. There are way too many channels with over-the-top cringey narrations like they're on the Travel Channel, I watch you because you're not one of them.
Salut! I always thought you were part of SNCF! you may know, railway staff FIP card makes travel life easier ;) and ridiculously cheaper!! I may have an additional question Thibaut (hope I wrote it well without using Google!) : After the success from the last summer despite the pandemic, do you think Open-Access operators may be the future on the European railways? and second, when did you start your enthusiasm about trains? did you choose your career following it?
On some of his videos you can see his train tickets, he used to be an SNCF ayant-droit and used FIP facilities, but I understand that he didn't talk about them publicly since railwaymen privileges are kind of taboo. But yeah the national and international travel facilities often save a lot of money. The good thing about them (at least in France) is that children of railwaymen may keep them as long as they're students without a revenue, which is very convenient for traveling with our limited student budget.
Congratulations on your milestones bro, and like to ask you one question, if you want to own a train operator company, what named do you want to given?
You are a great reviewer, however your coverage is really missing some important lines from the Central and Eastern Europe that you bypassed by a bus and a plane 🤣 But I'm looking forward to another US reports! Cheers!
You do not have a thick French accent. I had French roommates and friends when I first moved to Boston, from experience I can tell you that your English is very good. Vous n'avez pas un fort accent francais. J'avais des colocataires et des amis francais lorsque j'ai demenage a Boston, par experience je peux vous dire que votre anglais est tres bien.
Hey Thibault, please check out 'Superalbs travels' and 'his' report on the A250 in Italy. I'm pretty sure he's using your videos as his own. :-( If so, you need to hit him with a copyright strike.
I can’t understand how you like SBB so much the Trains crawl at 100 km/h most of the time. The seats are harder than steal so they give you back pain. The new trains have seats that make the seat next to the toilet in the tgv duplex feel like a sofa. The layout of the coaches is absolut shit your lucky if you have a train with at least 2 rows of aircraft stile seating so you don’t have to lock at an other person‘s face for hours. No caffe car on long distance services. Unfriendly personal. Prices no normal person can afford. And constant delays on my line. Plus there timetable that makes al trains come in and out of the station at the same time is causing overcrowding in some stations.
Forgive me M. Thibault, but there is one comment you made in this video that I disagree with you about. The biggest challenge is NOT educating people about modern trains in the US. The BIGGEST challenge is getting around the freight companies who are CONSTANTLY hogging the use of the rails. I know some might say they should be allowed as they own them, but that is honestly ridiculous. Before 2016 I was living in a city/town called Bryan, OH. in the NW corner of Ohio, and it would FRUSTRATE me to no end to have to wait for a freight train to pass by as I was driving to get someplace that was at least important for me. Because they were going by so quickly; I could not count all the freight cars, but I am sure there were about 20 or so.... Imagine what that is like if you are on an Amtrak train going to New York and you have a freight train that long going in the other direction, and your Amtrak train has to shunt to the side to wait, but then... all of a sudden... the freight train is having problems and it needs to stop for repairs... right in front of you... and it takes THREE HOURS to get the repairs done... Forget your connection... it will be long gone by the time you get there...But I can tell you THAT is one of the MAIN reasons an Amtrak train may be delayed... By the way... I agree with Mr. Levitt; your English is terrific...mistakes and all...
I also think if Amtrak wants to steal some of the business from the airlines, then they absolutely need to lower their sleeper car prices just a bit...Depending on where a person starts and where they travel to; even the roomette can get rather expensive. Just going from WAS to LAX booking a roomette AND using my "Disabled" discount or my "Veteran" discount would cost about $2582.00.
Round trip of course... Then there is also the fact I would still also need tickets to get to and from Washington up to Hartford... or probably more cheaply; Boston... I live in Hartford, CT.
Many Americans objection to rail isn't ignorance. They see trains as a symbol of the social and economic control of government and big corporations. American resentment of trains began in the 19th century, It has deep roots. Passenger trains will never have popular support in much of America. It is simply too deep a resentment to ever overcome.
@@edisonz2006 Because there was no alternative. People HAD to use trains to travel between cities. The moment someone created the alternative of cars, Americans seized on it with a revolutionary speed.
Mmm, post I think post WWII that the US actually spent money on building highways and airports but taxed passenger rail tickets. In effect disincentivizing the passenger rail market.
@@3506Dodge lmao americans didnt choose cars, they were forced into them. Motor companies bought out streetcar and interurban systems and the rise of the car combined with the interstate act is what destroyed passenger rail. it wasn't a choice. services were made inaccessible or less personalized as a business move by the automotive industry
@@dukctape What came first, the chicken or the egg? In this case, American desire for independence came first. Americans embraced cars and the policies that supported them.
Well America Lost it's Prime infrastructure and that the Great passengers trains from the Old World . PRR Broadway Limited, NYC 20th Century Limited, the Sante Fe Super Chief, The GN Empire Builder . So Now we Have Amtrak, better Funding makes better passenger trains.
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Your English is great! Especially for being self taught basically, but I agree with your decision to caption videos only, it allows me to feel like I am riding in the first person!
My hometown. KC. The Union Station has history, beyond belief. Even the bullet holes on the outside, tell you a mob story, from years back.
I love my hometown of KC and just going down to Union Station is always my favorite thing to do. There is so much history to uncover and Science City gives something fun for the kids to do.
@@evancompton2769 I agree completely. Next time you go down to Union Station, look around at the building itself. The ceilings, walls, lights, floors and everywhere else. They don't build them like that, anymore.
@Walter Fink, That is very true and it’s kinda sad since rail travel used to be luxurious and the station gave you the first impressions of how the trip was going to go
I live in Birmingham, UK and very close to the old Alstom factory that is now sadly closed. Well over 100 years of train manufacturing history on that site.
Congratuliations with the 50K! Awesome Q&A! I've been following your channel for quite a while and I really like your views on the actual product; you don't just focus on the train itself and that's what makes this channel stand out in my opinion. Your views are broadening my horizon. Also much respect for doing this in English, you're working hard on it and it's clearly coming to fruition.
Congratulations, Thibault. I love your videos. Also love that you brought us on a little journey on the street car even in this Q&A video :D yay! All the best for the new year from Emily in England
16:34 - I agree. Too many Brits complain about the British rail system. I live in Britain and I think it works well
Great to see you in person! Your English is far better than most peoples French! Lol! Keep going with it!! 🎉🎉
Excellent video. I had no idea that you were living in the U.S.
Thank you for introducing yourself in person. It is very nice to be able to see a real guy!
He clearly speaks English very well if he’s able to do a long video like this in it, given that English is not his native language!
@simplyrailway Quelles langues parles tu? Français, l’anglais, et quelles autres?
Congratulations!!! You well deserve the 50k and more! 👏👏👏
Congrats on 50k! Really enjoying your vids.
Congrats on 50k! Your channel is awesome! I am just wondering if you are going to review the Caltrain Stadler KISS EMUs when they arrive in 2022/2023. I am from there and am super excited about the project! Thanks! :)
Congrats on 50k! Hope one day you will get the playbutton 100k.
Merci pour toutes vos vidéos, j'attend toujours le vendredi 15h avec impatience :) Je préfère les sous titres que la voix/commentaire, ça donne une meilleure expérience comme si on y était 😁
I suspected that you might be French and now I have a proof. :))
It's not your accent that was terrible, but the audio quality, especially outside. You need a better microphone.
Congratulations for the 50k subs! You definitely deserve them.
Being American we are mesmerized by the trains in Europe. Living in Miami I have access to a metro (which is terrible) the Tri Rail (commuter rail) I use it to transfer from MIA to FLL. We also have Brightline now which has the greatest potential to become the new renaissance of rail. I do agree with you Thibault we need to be educated on how to use the train and if the system makes sense it is much more efficient to leave the car at home. Also being American, I do love my F-150 lol
Thanks for the video - I enjoy your trips.
Thanks very much.
A video on SNCFT (Tunisia) would be interesting...
Congratulations on 50K!!!!
nice to see the person behind the videos and by the way your English is very well understandable but I'm also perfectly happy with videos without speech
Great to hear you speak. Love the videos!
I have ridden all the AMTRAK long distance train routes west of St. Louis and The Canadian between Vancouver and Jasper. i would recommend The Zephyr from Chicago to the Bay Area and for you to make connection to take the Coast Starlight to Seattle taking a shuttle or train to Vancouver and riding The Canadian to Jasper back and forth. I enjoyed your video. Kansas City has a fine train station and have enjoyed waiting for connection at night with no crowds and the grand hall lit up with Frank Sinatra music playing if they are still doing it. i have also ridden Eurostar several times between London and Paris and TGV from Paris to Nice. I am really impressed with the high speed rail and train stations of Europe. I enjoyed your video. Good luck on your travels! From St. Louis
Congratulations on 50k subscribers! I'm glad TH-cam recommended me your channel, I really enjoy traveling along with you! :)
(I'll continue a bit in French as I'm Belgian and it's my mother tongue ;) )
J'adore regarder vos vidéos, je les trouve vraiment relaxantes (c'est un compliment! :D )
Si je peux vous donner un conseil pour votre futur voyage au Japon: si possible évitez l'été (très chaud et très humide, c'est l'enfer), allez-y plutôt en automne ou au printemps, c'est là que le pays est le plus magnifique, surtout pour des voyages en train! Ils font des voyages en train à vapeur spécifiquement à ces périodes pour voir le feuillage rouge des arbres en automne et les cerisiers en fleurs au printemps, le paradis pour les amateurs de trains ♥
Regardez "torokko train" sur google et vous allez voir que ça vaut le coup, bonne continuation! :)
i like seeing al your train journeys but in this video seeing the city and union station was great please try to show the cities where you go to it will be great.
J’adore ton videos. Merci!
Congratulations on 50k subscribers! You’re a very handsome man 😉. Loved the Q & A 👍🏻
Merci beaucoup, I love your high-speed videos 👍
Excellent! Congratulations on the milestone. If you come to Asia drop in to Australia. The Indian Pacific and tht Ghan are tourist classics. We havesomeothe trains too.
Thanks for answering my question. :)
Congratulations for your great work! You should also cover greek railway network. It's not dense, however after 25th of March the main line between Athens and Thessaloniki will be covered also by the ETR470 (except the ICs). I think it's worth a visit here :)
'If you don't have a car (in the USA) you're fucked'....🤣🤣🤣
Congrats on the 50k mate! Next 100k subs! 🎉
The captions are hilarious, love that TH-cam thinks the sound of that freight train is music lmao. It is to some, that's for sure! For the most part I can understand what you are saying through your accent, only a few words here and there are more difficult for me. The captions clearly misunderstood your speech far me than me. Congrats on making a salary from Hearthstone by the way hahaha. These captions are seriously amusing!
Part of the problem is that even if we had good intercity rail in North America, most places outside the huge cities have terrible transit so you still need a car and thus you may as well just drive to the next city and not bother with the train.
Good stuff....thanks for posting. Happy Holidays
You should check out Union Station in St. Paul, MN and if you spend the night stay at The Depot Hotel in Minneapolis. It is an old train depot and has a lot of history on the Old Milwaukee and Soo Line Rail. You can even take the green line train between the two cities.
Firstly, your English is good.
Secondly, I love your videos as they are. I love reading those descriptions. They're peaceful and maintain the environment and integrity of the whole concept. And I like hearing ambient sounds and train sounds instead of commentary.
The other channel mentioned, I did not like that. I find commentary obnoxious.
Thirdly, if you ever go to Asia and specifically india, I've heard from my family there that there's a new sort of "bullet" train there and apparently another one coming. I can't remember the name, but I'd really love to see you review that one :)
I hope you keep doing this as long as possible and keep the same amazing format.
My lovely boy in the World. I'm waiting you in cold Russia❤
Your English is great, hope you enjoy your last few months in the USA! I can't wait to visit your home country again soon
Bravo Frérot !!
Félicitations pour le taff que tu fais c'est ouf! 👌
Hâte de te revoir copain 😉
Romain
Est-ce que tu connais l'entrée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat ?
@@SimplyRailway Ahah il parait que c'est très bon
Congrats man!
Congrats!
Congrats on 50k.
Congratulations mate
Did you see the model railroad room at Union Station? So cool!
great video q and a and you are close to 60k subs
Wow! Such a nice guy!
Congratulations for 50K subs. De mon côté j'ai eu aucune difficulté à comprendre ton anglais parce que je suis moi-même Français.
Since you loved the Alaska Railroad. Are you going to take a trip on via rail’s “the Canadian”? I think you would also enjoy it.
he mentioned it. He was planning to, but currently he can’t because his visa is limited to the US and international travel is limited due to the pandemic.
Hi. Could you please comment about your camera or phone you use for filming. Merci et Bonne Anne!
I love the videos because there's no commentary. I have the choice of reading subtitles or ignoring them and just listen to the ambient sound.
There are way too many channels with over-the-top cringey narrations like they're on the Travel Channel, I watch you because you're not one of them.
Salut! I always thought you were part of SNCF! you may know, railway staff FIP card makes travel life easier ;) and ridiculously cheaper!!
I may have an additional question Thibaut (hope I wrote it well without using Google!) : After the success from the last summer despite the pandemic, do you think Open-Access operators may be the future on the European railways? and second, when did you start your enthusiasm about trains? did you choose your career following it?
On some of his videos you can see his train tickets, he used to be an SNCF ayant-droit and used FIP facilities, but I understand that he didn't talk about them publicly since railwaymen privileges are kind of taboo. But yeah the national and international travel facilities often save a lot of money. The good thing about them (at least in France) is that children of railwaymen may keep them as long as they're students without a revenue, which is very convenient for traveling with our limited student budget.
I agree with captions only. Sometimes I wish Paul Lucas wouldn't provide a commentary.
Simply highway
Congratulations on your milestones bro, and like to ask you one question, if you want to own a train operator company, what named do you want to given?
He now has 60K+ subscribers!
🎉
Cooll ! lol i always miss the Q/A
Brightline is ready now. It's been operating for quite some time.
bon travail!
Too bad you were not around decades ago to experience the New York Central’s Twentieth Century Limited. Just an amazing train travel experience.
You should definitely try Trans Siberian once in your life!
Félicitations!
You're english is great! Thank you for your videos and the work you put into them. I think the captions better than voice narration!
Poah well done pal
When you're in New York, please do a trip report on the NYC Subway. :)
I'd be honored to meet you if you're en the NYC area! I like your videos very much!
do a collab video with downielive, he is also a train enthusiast
only 50k, why not more? mans deserves more subs
You're so cute! I'm in love 😍
I know right! ☺️
good job video i love train
Handsome man!
👍
16:44 - Automatic caption says "A lot of british people say the racism sucks because its too expensive" xDDD
Do some Asia trip reports
@simply railway I just found out you were living in the Kansas City area. Did you move back to France already?
Yep
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@Simply Railway I've Been To Canada.
Nice ❤️
You are a great reviewer, however your coverage is really missing some important lines from the Central and Eastern Europe that you bypassed by a bus and a plane 🤣 But I'm looking forward to another US reports! Cheers!
I can’t find the previous Q&A. Would someone post the link?
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@@SimplyRailway Thank you
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Love u from india Kerala
I thought Northern France's inhabitants spoke a better English because of its relationship with the English Channel and neighbouring England
It’s a belief 😅
So the proper name for the Avelia Liberty is SLR?
It's called Acela Express
You do not have a thick French accent. I had French roommates and friends when I first moved to Boston, from experience I can tell you that your English is very good. Vous n'avez pas un fort accent francais. J'avais des colocataires et des amis francais lorsque j'ai demenage a Boston, par experience je peux vous dire que votre anglais est tres bien.
India is using Alstom metro rail recks.
Purée tu es vraiment un passionné depuis tout petit ! n'as tu jamais été intéressé par travailler à la SNCF ?
Il a travaillé à la SNCF
Cheminot forever
answer on the question why are you dont do commetarry. thats the reason i like tis page.
Hey Thibault, please check out 'Superalbs travels' and 'his' report on the A250 in Italy. I'm pretty sure he's using your videos as his own. :-( If so, you need to hit him with a copyright strike.
Train service in the US is embarrassing compared to the rail system in Europe.
No embarrassment, different values.
I like antique trains, but unfortunately that's our main rail system here in the US. @@SBCBears
The service is quite good, but the problem is the schedule and route network
Dommage que ton micro soit si mauvais (le son très saturé quand tu parles).
Tu est Français👍🏻👍🏻
I can’t understand how you like SBB so much the Trains crawl at 100 km/h most of the time. The seats are harder than steal so they give you back pain. The new trains have seats that make the seat next to the toilet in the tgv duplex feel like a sofa. The layout of the coaches is absolut shit your lucky if you have a train with at least 2 rows of aircraft stile seating so you don’t have to lock at an other person‘s face for hours. No caffe car on long distance services. Unfriendly personal. Prices no normal person can afford. And constant delays on my line. Plus there timetable that makes al trains come in and out of the station at the same time is causing overcrowding in some stations.
Forgive me M. Thibault, but there is one comment you made in this video that I disagree with you about. The biggest challenge is NOT educating people about modern trains in the US. The BIGGEST challenge is getting around the freight companies who are CONSTANTLY hogging the use of the rails. I know some might say they should be allowed as they own them, but that is honestly ridiculous. Before 2016 I was living in a city/town called Bryan, OH. in the NW corner of Ohio, and it would FRUSTRATE me to no end to have to wait for a freight train to pass by as I was driving to get someplace that was at least important for me. Because they were going by so quickly; I could not count all the freight cars, but I am sure there were about 20 or so.... Imagine what that is like if you are on an Amtrak train going to New York and you have a freight train that long going in the other direction, and your Amtrak train has to shunt to the side to wait, but then... all of a sudden... the freight train is having problems and it needs to stop for repairs... right in front of you... and it takes THREE HOURS to get the repairs done... Forget your connection... it will be long gone by the time you get there...But I can tell you THAT is one of the MAIN reasons an Amtrak train may be delayed... By the way... I agree with Mr. Levitt; your English is terrific...mistakes and all...
I also think if Amtrak wants to steal some of the business from the airlines, then they absolutely need to lower their sleeper car prices just a bit...Depending on where a person starts and where they travel to; even the roomette can get rather expensive. Just going from WAS to LAX booking a roomette AND using my "Disabled" discount or my "Veteran" discount would cost about $2582.00.
Round trip of course... Then there is also the fact I would still also need tickets to get to and from Washington up to Hartford... or probably more cheaply; Boston... I live in Hartford, CT.
Mais sa se voit tellement avec ton accent que tu est un français 😂
BESY YT
Many Americans objection to rail isn't ignorance. They see trains as a symbol of the social and economic control of government and big corporations. American resentment of trains began in the 19th century, It has deep roots. Passenger trains will never have popular support in much of America. It is simply too deep a resentment to ever overcome.
But in the early 20th century, rail travel in the US was very very popular.
@@edisonz2006 Because there was no alternative. People HAD to use trains to travel between cities. The moment someone created the alternative of cars, Americans seized on it with a revolutionary speed.
Mmm, post I think post WWII that the US actually spent money on building highways and airports but taxed passenger rail tickets. In effect disincentivizing the passenger rail market.
@@3506Dodge lmao americans didnt choose cars, they were forced into them. Motor companies bought out streetcar and interurban systems and the rise of the car combined with the interstate act is what destroyed passenger rail. it wasn't a choice. services were made inaccessible or less personalized as a business move by the automotive industry
@@dukctape What came first, the chicken or the egg? In this case, American desire for independence came first. Americans embraced cars and the policies that supported them.
Well America Lost it's Prime infrastructure and that the Great passengers trains from the Old World . PRR Broadway Limited, NYC 20th Century Limited, the Sante Fe Super Chief, The GN Empire Builder . So Now we Have Amtrak, better Funding makes better passenger trains.
Congrats on 50K!