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New World Train Electrification in Colour (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ouch, I didn't realize it was so little.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

It’s why we gotta demand of our leaders to commit to electrification of the lines.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A tiny pink line will appear if you were to zoom in to Mason City, Iowa, USA.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nice find! I thought America only had it for New England and California.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Many of the big, blue cities will have some color if you zoom in. But only to commute within the area

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The Yucatan peninsula has an electric line too!

[–] SomeGuy69 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Damn USA that's a shame. Zero fucks given of you guys.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Canada: hold my beer!

[–] SomeGuy69 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For more mountainous or thick forest areas this is understandably. It required combustion engine trains, simply because of steep mountains, where it's difficult to put down power lines or forests with a lot of trees who can easily destroy power lines. USA however is mostly flat. Looking at some like Austria or Swiss, if I see this correctly, they also are on a good way. Here we have a lot of hybrid but in general our train transport is a mess of mixed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The purple line is surprising in Venezuela as they have abundant oil, I guess they want to export the oil at higher prices to other countries.

[+] over_clox -11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Posted image is literally in grayscale (though the provided link is in color).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because the vast majority of the rail lines in the Americas are fossil fuel powered.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No it's not, zoom in on the north-east of the USA.

[–] over_clox 1 points 3 months ago

Thank you, very helpful 👍

[–] abysmalpoptart 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I think the original poster posted this intentionally as sarcasm because there is so little color in the image. If you look at the original image and look at the USA North east near new york, you'll see a few meager lines that are various colors (as well as a few slivers in south and central america, and what looks like a dot in los Angeles). This is showcasing just how little electrified rail exists in the americas.

It may not seem like it, but it is actually in color. I'm on mobile and am able to see it. If you're not able to, it may be an issue with your app or method of viewing the post.

[–] over_clox -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If you check the link they shared, it's practically all orange, so they did not share the default view, nor a color legend to go along with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

yea ofc the map is orange, it's showing the infrastructure type instead of electrification

yk how maps work right?

[–] over_clox 1 points 3 months ago

Not entirely, not when the map site just kicks me back to Lemmy when I attempt to change 'Style'

[–] abysmalpoptart 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That is correct, it isn't the default view, it's the electrification view, which OP inferred they were using (the title says electrification map). If you open the link, the orange is worldwide general rail infrastructure.

If you click the top right options button (the 3 line "hamburger" icon at the far top right, separate from the map layers), you'll see an option for electrification. This is the map they shared.

The grayscale option actually only grayscales the territory, not the infrastructure. I hope this helps clarify the situation.

I do agree that a legend would have been helpful.