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Rail and the coming changes in transport |
Erik Hoffner |
03 Jun 2008 |
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| National Train Day was marked this year on May 10, so it's not too incredibly late to mention two new books of note: John Stilgoe's Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape that came out in the fall says that rail is 'an economic and cultural tsunami about to transform the United States.' Maybe that's a little grand, but rail is definitely on the ascendancy, since it can move people and freight at a fraction of the energy usage vs. ... |
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