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Geography Is Trains: The United States Actually Kind Of Is A Train Country...

2024/6/4
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Geography Is Everything

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📝 Substack: https://geographyiseverything.substack.com/📽️ YouTube: @GeographyByGeoff )📷 Socials: https://linktr.ee/geographybygeoff📖 Check out Hunter's atlas' here: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=hunter+shobeTrains are an incredibly important piece of transportation technology. But while the United States is not often considered to be a train country overall, it actually kind of is! It's just not one for passengers. Still, the U.S. has more active track than any other single country and hauls much of our goods from city to city. Join us as we tackle the global geography of trains including who carries the most passengers, what the longest rail line is, and what the United States', Canada's and Mexico's rail infrastructure looks like.