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Originally Posted by Grant-53
Fuel for a train is supposedly 248 passenger miles per gallon.
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If it's crammed full.
Trains weigh 100s of tons, and take a lot of energy to get moving.
To make things worse, they even go 120 or 160 kph here, despite the relatively short distances.
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Buses may get up to 500 passenger miles per gallon but no dining car.
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Again, only when full.
And usually, they ain't full.
A local supplier has a contract to build 300 US busses, but will build a second construction plant in Macedonia to assemble them, rather than doing so locally.