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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ouch, I didn't realize it was so little.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

The Yucatan peninsula has an electric line too!

[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year 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.