very-gay-alkyrion asked:

As a German who regularly travels via the ICE home (it's like an environmentally friendly plane!), I just want to ask: Why is so little of your infrastructure electrified?

Any ten-hour video series you could recommend on how the railway ended up in its current state?

The reason is that the majority of rail tracks are privately owned and the makes electrifying tracks very hard because it is expensive for a private company to do. The solution to this is nationalizing the railroads