"It doesn't count because it's just passenger rail!!! The U.S. has the largest freight rail system!!"
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"Look how awesome our freight rail is!"
not pictured: our freight rail
That's because it's 4 hours behind schedule because it got sidetracked and the train that had priority had one engineer for 120 cars.
4 hours behind schedule is a typical Amtrak delay.
You have no idea how delayed freight trains can get
Yea that's because our rail infrastructure is shit and rail companies have one person conducting 100+ car long trains.
Dozens of other countries figured this out decades ago, it's not that we can't it's that we very consciously do not want to.
Two-person crews are mandated now on all railroads (with some exceptions), but that's probably still not enough for how long some of the trains are. Without two-person crews you get Lac-Megantic.