To: Publius
Our trains run far slower and to far fewer cities and towns now than they ran in the 1920s!
9 posted on
05/13/2015 12:25:54 PM PDT by
Kenny Bunk
(Hi! We're having a constitutional crisis. Come on over!)
To: Kenny Bunk
Our trains run far slower and to far fewer cities and towns now than they ran in the 1920s! Our airlines fly much faster and to far more cities and towns than they did in the 1920s. You don't suppose there's a correlation, do you?
To: Kenny Bunk
That's because there was a massive tearing out of rail infrastructure in the Fifties and Sixties. Wall Street even considered getting rid of the railroads and moving all freight via the new Interstate Highway System. Then the highway system became clogged with trucks, and the railroads found a new niche concentrating on bulk goods.
Then the railroads spun off unprofitable branch lines to short line operators, and concentrated on hook-and-haul.
Today the freight railroads are all making a lot of money and are putting a lot of money into expanding their infrastructure. The latest issue of "Trains" magazine lists how much the Class I railroads are putting into capital expenditures this year. It's a lot.
25 posted on
05/13/2015 12:30:29 PM PDT by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: Kenny Bunk
Our trains run far slower and to far fewer cities and towns now than they ran in the 1920s! Our planes and automobiles run far faster and to far more cities and towns now than they ran in the 1920s!
78 posted on
05/13/2015 1:08:01 PM PDT by
NorthMountain
("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
To: Kenny Bunk
Well of course, we built a beautiful and effeddtive federal highway system
88 posted on
05/13/2015 1:29:30 PM PDT by
Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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