These are actually quite cool as there is no need for high capacity in these lowly populated areas and being able to use a single track in both directions is quite useful.
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2025
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literally my only complaint about these is that they need to clearly explain how stabling and switching tracks would work
I dunno, these are kinda cool. I'd love if my region would put the old tracks connecting the towns back into operation with proper trains or even self propelled railcars, but I can understand that we'd see massive NIMBY pushback from all the folks who bought houses by the tracks but haven't seen them run in their lifetimes.
So they sit unused or get turned into bike trails (though they've been decent about putting the trails alongside the tracks rather than replacing them). The only people who actually use the tracks are the clubs with motorized rail bogies who travel on them a couple weekends in the sunmer.
Adding these things would be a low-infrastructure, low-resistance step towards trains and an improvement over no trains, so I think it'd be cool if they took off.