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Amtrak from a Japanese perspective (...of Americans lol)

🕑 Added 2024-10-31 08:59:17 +0000 UTC

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Kyde & Eric

Yea, I find that slightly more excusable in Hokkaido than a country's busiest rail corridor haha. Virginia isn't exactly the wilderness. It's just wild how far behind the country is with rail development.

Mark Bore

There are places where it's mixed in Hokkaido. Hakodate to the Seikan tunnel is electric. Then it's diesel on the Hakodate Line until Muroran, then electric to Sapporo. The old Hokutosei train from Tokyo to Sapporo used to change engines along the way. That train was discontinued a while ago.

Kyde & Eric

haha i won't argue.

Carly Medosch

DC to Richmond *is* the inaka in America!

Kyde & Eric

yea, I suspected as much about the lack of seats. as far as tracks, hilariously I was taking an Amtrak from Fredericksburg to DC one day and there are two tracks. No signs showing which the train arrives at, but there is a "usual" track according to locals who use it often. so like 150 people were waiting on one platform and the train came into the other one, we all had to rush crossing under via a tunnel full of rusty puddle water, and thus the train was delayed further as a result. A friend's dad was an engineer for Amtrak for his entire career so I asked him why there isn't any communication to tell the passengers where to wait and he said "no one cares, that's why."

Kevin Jin

Believe it or not, the no seats in NY Penn station is mainly to deter homeless people from sleeping/loitering there. You got the chaos of trying to find the track number. It seems the workers might know which tracks are usually which train (but not always?).