Comment Comment by fr0sty Some light googling gives me 390B kilometer-tonnes[1] in Europe and 1.6T ton-miles[2] in the US for 2019. So that is 6x the freight movement.The US rail network also >2x longer than Europe[3] (360,000km vs 151,000km).[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/198443/us-class-i-freigh...[3] https://www.floridarail.com/news/6-key-differences-between-a... parent fr0sty 3 years ago
The US rail network also >2x longer than Europe[3] (360,000km vs 151,000km).
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/198443/us-class-i-freigh...
[3] https://www.floridarail.com/news/6-key-differences-between-a...