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To: steve harris who wrote (386131)	5/24/2008 1:12:20 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575028

I'd love to see electric trains across the country, replacing all of these trucks destroying the roads that politicians do not fix with our fuel taxes. It is, to me, astonishing that rail isn't being used far more heavily than it is. The railroads need badly to get their crap together and create express routes that will get people from one city to another quickly, and to create a sophisticated small freight delivery system along with it. If they don't, a Fred Smith is going to come along, eventually, and yank it out from under them. Rail freight is totally under-utilized within the United States. According to Freight Rail Works, if you could shift 10% of long-haul freight from truck to rail you would reduce fuel consumption by a billion gallons a year. That's pretty serious savings.