We all know that BLUE engines are part of the White Boxcar Conspiracy. It’s people like you that threaten our sacred RED way of life. And you probably like polka-dots better than stripes. Squares instead of circles. Up instead of down. In rather than out.
Red engines are just a front for the yellow engine regime against us honest blue engine lovers. And you can’t like both polka dots and squares. That’s just crazy.
I like “Blue Christmas” as sung by Elvis Presley. Elvis, of course lived in Memphis, TN which has a fine old station and his served twice a day by the City of New Orleans.
Thus gas guzzling SUV’s of 10 years ago (remember the Hummers?) are now pretty efficient. I gave my Jeep Commander (about 15mpg overall) to my 16 year old son and upgraded to a slightly smaller Chevy Equinox which provides 24mpg overall, a 60% increase.
I wish the former Minnesota Zephyr line behind the house I live in were to be a light rail line. Its being turned into a bike trail and it is owned by the state and it is on a list or potential future routes for a light rail line but they are building other legs of the Twin Cities light rail system that they have put up ahead of this one. I wish that they never ever abandoned and removed rail lines because of some time down the road in decades or centuries they will be needed again when we run out of petroleum and then coal. If they can develop inexpensive hydrogen fuel cells for cars then we don’t have to worry about the end of personal transportation on 4 wheels.
Realities are that right now its cheap to operate a car or truck and thus the decline of passenger rail. Box trucks and semis hauling freight have put a big dent in rail freight with complete A to B transportation on demand.
Well yes, but the low cost of operating a road vehicle is a created reality, created by government policies of subsidizing road travel in a great many hidden ways.
There is also the reality of a steel wheel on a steel rail.
And it is possible to choose some realities and ignore others.