From: Huge@nowhere.much.invalid   
      
   On 2019-12-01, RS Wood  wrote:   
      
   [snip]   
      
   > Huge is right: Amtrak could fuck off and die and almost noone would   
   > notice.  It once had some potential, but it just doesn't make sense   
   > anymore.   
      
   Amtrak doesn't or passenger rail doesn't? I would have thought the USA   
   was an ideal place to run high speed rail, but what do I know?   
      
   > Meanwhile, you've got to pity the rail freight people. Groupthink sure,   
   > but you know they took one look at elected government and said, "the   
   > only solution these numbnuts have will be to tax diesel and while they   
   > pat themselves on the back we'll go out of business."   
   >   
   > I don't see an alternative to diesel freight trains at present, or in   
   > the near future. Natural gas perhaps, but the expense!  And since   
   > Americans and their elected congresscritters have opted not to invest in   
   > roadway repair in decades, we'll face bad days in highway transport,   
   > too.   
      
   Troo.   
      
      
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