Romance of the Rails: Why the Passenger Trains We Love Are Not the Transportation We Need by Randal O'Toole
English | November 8th, 2018 | ISBN: 1944424946 | 300 pages | EPUB | 40.77 MB
American transportation has undergone many technological revolutions: from sailing ships to steamships; canals to railroads; steam to diesel; horsecars to electric streetcars; passenger trains and urban rail transit to airplanes and automobiles. Normally, the federal government has allowed and encouraged these revolutions, but today it continues to spend billions of dollars trying to preserve and build obsolete rail transit, passenger train lines, and high-speed trains.