test the smoothness of your track driving a speeder down the line

I use the A23 Jetsled for high speed track inspection, goes 786 mph ... sadly Trainz track is much too smooth and perfect, Class V track ... allot of real US RR's have very rough track, and kinked turnouts, especially in yards
 
Rough track and track not kept up, which is the great demise of intercity/interstate rail passenger service in America and why Amtrak wrecks a lot.

Railroads are just too flat-out cheap to keep things nice and tidy: in ship-shape. Smooth track, for the most part, is something I can praise TS12 for.
 
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RR's are in it for the short haul, making money, they look at things on a short term basis, yearly quarter, to yearly quarter. Keep as many trains flowing, with the fewest employees, and the cheapest maintenance expenditures.

I look at my Trainz track ... all perfectly straight, and no kinks, nor leaps and dips ... then I take a telephoto shot of the best RR mainline track, and kinks, leaps and dips, are everywhere.
 
RR's are in it for the short haul, making money, they look at things on a short term basis, yearly quarter, to yearly quarter. Keep as many trains flowing, with the fewest employees, and the cheapest maintenance expenditures.

I look at my Trainz track ... all perfectly straight, and no kinks, nor leaps and dips ... then I take a telephoto shot of the best RR mainline track, and kinks, leaps and dips, are everywhere.

The railroads follow the same business mantra which has been in place since the mid-1970s. They aim to get as much profit for the stockholders and CEOs will do absolutely nothing to reinvest back into the company unless they have to. This is where the government regulation is a good thing because if we didn't the railroads would all look like the old granger lines across South Dakota and elsewhere. This business model has lead to the demise of many great American companies. The only thing that keeps the railroads here is they can't be offshored.

John
 
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