Fine, sure you can take a train from Córdoba to Buenos Aires, but it’s a 20h long trip. Twenty fucking hours, I’m not joking.

      • regul [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        11 days ago

        I’ve just read the Wikipedia article about rail transit and Argentina and it seems that, at least until, you know, all the bad shit started happening, things were possibly going to get better?

        Re-nationalization is a big win. Replacing track with continuously-welded segments is also good. You seem to be able to accomplish electrification in a normal timeframe for normal costs.

        But yikes you have so many different gauges on your legacy rail and obviously under the junta and shock therapy it all got hollowed out.

        But literally how can speeds be so low? I know you’re mostly using diesels, but are there just too many level crossings and the curves are too sharp?

        • RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          4·
          11 days ago

          literally how can speeds be so low?

          20 fucking years of me pulling my hair asking the same.

          I took the Buenos Aires - Mar del Plata train, which is the fastest we still have, all new tracks and shit, and the average speed is 75 km/h

          Brand new tracks.

          A hundred years ago the same line had a special train for transporting fish that had a record of 120 km/h average speed.