#and the problem gets worse the farther north you get on account of the cascades and ESPECIALLY the region around shasta

[tabbyjack]

the problem with building out america's rail network btw is that it's privatized and there will never be a corporate incentive strong enough or backed enough to implement effective, accessible, AND privatized countrywide travel. nationalize railways deliver on the demands of railway workers and most importantly respect indigenous sovereignty/include indigenous design input when plotting routes

#and a million other things mostly to do with geology but in terms of politics and morals this is what im going with as far as a snappy #summary of 'the problem' #however geology elaboration: america is So hard to build railways across because our most populated areas along the west coast #(where most of the rail drought is; rail PRICING on the east coast is a whole nother thing) #are stupid mountainous. the california hsr plan is spending several million more on the rail line bc they gotta plan around a mountain #and the problem gets worse the farther north you get on account of the cascades and ESPECIALLY the region around shasta #in another life i was a seismic engineer. anyway #i'm looking for a papers or other peer-reviewed content on the history of american rail labor #if anyone has favorites send them my way cause all my research is locked on california and the pacific coast more broadly #'research' my font of pdfs i downloaded from ILLs lol