Bi-Polar Bear wrote:trains are so much more economical than trucking... why did we give them up in the first place?
Partly rhetorical I'm sure it had to do with contributions to politicians.
How do you figure that?
Do you see rain tracks running to every store, gas station, mom and pop store, and every other business in the country?
How do you think goods and freight get to the different merchants around the country, and to the railroad terminals?