[ml/nj]

what do you think killed the railroads

Airplanes.

I doubt anyone living where I do now used a train in 1950 either. When I use public transit, I take a bus which doesn't use any Interstate highways at all. My guess is that only a small percentage of the buses that go into NYC from NJ are ever on an Interstate, not counting the absurd designation of the helix into the Lincoln Tunnel as I-495.

ML/NJ

[Rumplemeyer]

Airplanes, no try again. I was the freight traffic not passenger traffic the railroads made their money on.

The railroads had to build their ‘road’ the trucking companies did not, Uncle Sam did, the Interstate system killed the railroads.