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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Cracklin Charlie

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6. My dad worked for the railroad.

Reply to GPV (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 16, 2021, 12:25 PM

Mar 2021

I remember him telling me that when rich folks could travel mostly by air, the railroads would be left to die. He was right.

Only a few years later, as he was retiring, did he figure out that the Petromob was gonna fill the highways with diesel trucks to replace all the goods previously shipped by rail.

This process seemed to happen quite rapidly. He was a little bitter about it.

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