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More Traintastic Content
I Rode the Craziest Trains in Japan
I Visited the World’s Busiest Train Station
DINOSAURS AND TRAINS!!!!! (with TierZoo)
This Train Station Has No Business Being This Good
Why Swiss Trains are the Best in Europe
The Trains that Killed an Airline – Italian HSR
The Trains that Subsidize Suburbia – GO Transit Commuter Rail
Why Passenger Trains Suck in Canada – VIA Rail
America Always Gets This Wrong (when building transit)
More Lanes are (Still) a Bad Thing
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References & Further Reading
Which form of transport has the smallest carbon footprint?
https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint
Looking east at the widest segment of Highway 401
By Clashmaker – Cropped version of File:Highway 401.png, CC BY-SA 2.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=100929861
High-Speed Railways: Present Situation and Future Prospects
https://www.scirp.org/html/4-3500117_31817.htm
Mission Impossible 7 filming in Stoney Middleton
Richard Bowring
An eastbound VIA Rail Canada train passing through Port Credit GO Station in Mississauga (Port Credit), Ontario
By Milan Suvajac – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=123144142
Northbound Northeast Regional #94 arriving at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in March 2019
By Mark Levisay from Ruckersville, VA, USA – D7K_5938-1, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=150986157
Amtrak train #156, The northbound Northeast Regional, is led today by GE P42 #158.
By Mark Levisay – https://www.flickr.com/photos/mlevisay/52757845161/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=144610905
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:24 Leaving New York
3:04 On the train
4:03 The views
4:38 Freight trains & delays
5:37 The train is so much more comfortable
7:09 The border crossing
8:17 The Canadian side
9:24 Should you take this train?
10:20 Comparisons to Europe & Japan
11:20 We need more high-speed rail
12:02 VIA Rail is bad … and getting worse
12:58 VIA Rail is expensive!
14:11 The new VIA Rail baggage policy 🤦♂️
15:49 Better train service is important!
17:14 Concluding thoughts
