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ooli3@sopuli.xyz to Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz · 6 months ago

Passenger trains in the United States vs Europe

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Passenger trains in the United States vs Europe

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ooli3@sopuli.xyz to Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz · 6 months ago
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  • expatriado@lemmy.world
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    Chicago has been a major transportation hub for nearly 200 years, it is the furthest inland you can reach from the sea by ship. cattle arrived from Texas ranches to Slaughterhouses on their way to the east coast. Wells Fargo was founded because American Express didn’t want to operate further than Chicago, but they saw there was the opportunity of linking NY to San Francisco by Chicago

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      it is the furthest inland you can reach from the sea by ship

      That’s not actually true. There are several further in than Chicago. Duluth is the furthest inland sea port in the US

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        I would say that even this is untrue as the US has the largest system of navigable inland waterways in the world You could load a barge with cargo in Albany, NY and get it all the way to Omaha, NE without ever having to portage or unload the barge.

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          Your wiki link is pointing to the Amazon Sidewalk article.

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            Thank you. I have been having issues where the Wikipedia app doesn’t properly open up a page and instead puts the text of the new page over the old page.

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              I didn’t even know there was a Wikipedia app. What’s the point? What does it do better than a web browser?

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                The UI is much better than the mobile browser and it opens up articles in a new tab that i can come back to without cluttering up my browser tabs

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