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Maybe. In the end there may have to be an Amtrak-like entity of some sort, although private operators would likely still skim the cream of the passenger service. But keep in mind that were moving infrastructure maintenance costs to the public sector here (as with roads and airports) eliminates...

The basic idea was to have the railroads in the United States function as the other transportation modes do: private vehicles on public infrastructure. In the case of Amtrak, on most of its system, it's the other way around - public vehicles on private infrastructure - and it doesn't seem to...

I did a timeline once (it might be floating around on this site, IIRC) where a massive financial crash of the railroads (the New York Central, specifically) in the Great Depression prompted a government takeover, but of the infrastructure ONLY - the lines were in essence taken over by the...

This (and also the guy a few pages back who spoke about improving infrastructure, another great comment that got lost in all the back-and-forth). HSR gets the sexy headlines, but it's important to remember that those European HSR systems didn't occur in a vacuum. They were basically...

Well, what I don't understand in these threads is why the auto advocates absolutely insist on framing the issue as cars vs. trains in some sort of battle to the death, as if you can only have one or the other, and improved trains means that people aren't going to be allowed to drive or some such...

Jeez, it can't be THAT boring an idea.... How about the effects on the Reformation?

I'm not at all well versed in the High Middle Ages/Renaissance period, so I thought I'd pose this notion more as a question for the better versed. I'm reading a history book currently that briefly discusses Tenth Century Eastern Europe, and the author asserted (and it makes sense) that at that...

From an old AH site: Crazy Adolf's Mile of Cars

Bears are fast.

This point seems almost frivolous amid talk of geopolitics and military hardware, but: The St. Louis Browns of the American League in 1941 had one of the worst win-loss records in American major league baseball. For this reason, they were unable to attract anywhere near the number of paying...

That was exactly the point. The idea was that he was literally a last minute replacement and an extremely poor fit for the Stones, thus helping hasten their breakup.

Lester Bangs. Be interesting to see what he would have written in the era of MTV. Brian Jones. Martin Niemoller.

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John might have made the tracks at the same time as OTL, but held back from releasing them. I can see him saying something like, "They'll all be asking me 'Are you following Paul?' No, I'm not following him....I'll wait for him to get out of the fooking way." Maybe Double Fantasy ends up with...

Here's a thought that hasn't occurred to me in the past, for you Beatle fans: In January 1980, Paul McCartney was notoriously arrested entering Japan with marijuana at the start of what was supposed to be a Wings tour. After spending about a week in jail, he was ultimately released and went...

Ringo was sickly as a child, so it's not hard to imagine him having something chronic that takes him out relatively young, especially coupled with his heavy drinking.

Probably have the B&O buy the WM branch; the EL doesn't really need it, since the north end doesn't connect with the EL system anywhere.

Actually, I live in Oregon. I do think it's disingenuous, though, to pretend there's no condescension in the "flyover" term - I've witnessed it personally. Again, though, we're drifting off topic; this is an issue better suited to Political Chat.

OK, I asked you politely to refrain from commenting on my posts. Since you ignored that request, the same way you ignored the intent of my original post, I'm going to be more blunt: go away. If you ignore this request a third time, I will take appropriate action.

Look...you do this EVERY time this topic comes up no matter the context. I didn"t ask you to discuss the POD, so you're not even on topic. Please refrain from commenting on any of my posts in the future.