• henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    10 hours ago

    At best it’s inaccurate. I see several missing lines that I know exist because I lived near them.

    Old map, perhaps?

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      2 hours ago

      I see several missing lines that I know exist because I lived near them.

      It’s also missing every single rail line north of Copenhagen. The map is apparently a simplification on both continents.

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      3 hours ago

      Virginia, by any chance? I’m pretty there are state routes not on this Amtrak map

      Or commuter rail? It’s hard to tell but I don’t see anything I recognize as commuter or metro rail. This looks like Amtrak intercity only.

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        2 hours ago

        All three state supported VA rail routes are on this map, along with the Cardinal, the Crescent, and the I-95 Amtrak routes. The S-Line isn’t, but it also doesn’t exist yet. Same with the Commonwealth Corridor. VRE shares tracks with Amtrak, so it is there, but does not have any visible effect on this map.

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      8 hours ago

      More likely a new map, and the lines you’re thinking of have been shut down since the last time you checked.

      (Or you’re thinking of train tracks in general, not specifically ones carrying passenger service, which is what this is a map of.)

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      9 hours ago

      Not that old. Between when Katrina wiped out the New Orleans-Jacksonville route in 2005 and when they partially restored the route in 2025. The only missing line I see is the Atlantic City line, which was out of service for about a week after Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and about 8 months for signal modernization work in 2018-2019, so it is probably an accurate map of the available services in late 2018. It’s worth noting that most of the lines on the map have one train per day per direction or fewer also, so if anything this map undersells the difference between US rail service and European rail service