We always hear that trains can’t survive in this country without public subsidy. That may be true. But you can say the same thing about the big banks, can’t you?

[…] Meanwhile, the railroad tracks themselves are a mess. Again, highways are publically funded, railroads aren’t.

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Do you think maybe GM could retool and start building passenger trains? Sure, GM knows nothing about building railcars. Well, it didn’t know anything about building tanks in World War II, either, and GM learned that pretty quickly.