Jean-Francois Mezei on Nostr: nprofile1q…pwuyc nprofile1q…rrdmf Canada and the USA may be stuck in the 1950s ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqc5laelfeypyl0xrlda7rjnq9frlajerezjm0jw0tvd3ch8t66t3qupwuyc (nprofile…wuyc) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq2fj3wx9xvhh4xws5a75flsvww32dsz44xrl7eutu62kux9v50wvstrrdmf (nprofile…rdmf) Canada and the USA may be stuck in the 1950s but for one "good" reason: Both have adopted the same standards for trains and couplers so that a freight car in Prince Rupert can travel on multiple freight railways to Florida. Hard to evolve such standards.

Europe are only now starting to work on standardized automated couplers. A german freight train can travel to Italy as a unit, but those german freight cars can't be coupled onto Italian train.