Comment by Wowfunhappy
2 days ago
IMO the freight companies should be able to pay to build longer sidings if they need them, but they should have to pay for it.
2 days ago
IMO the freight companies should be able to pay to build longer sidings if they need them, but they should have to pay for it.
They're not going to build a 4 mile siding, which is the length that many freight operate at. At that point it's like building a second set of tracks.
Then don't build 4 mile trains. It needs to be possible for trains to pass each other.
a lot of rail is 2 track so no sidings are needed.
Because trains never go the other direction anyway.
Dual track isn’t really a two way road, with signaling it ends up being infinite sidings, and is used almost more for passing than for two-way traffic - if it exists outside cities.
Unfortunately much of the USA is single or effectively single tracked.