>have an electrified high-speed rail line connecting chicago

>>1046652
and yet your electric train set is still a bike trail.

there's a reason for that. find the electric trains. find state-run trains.

public trans doesn't work without huge government subsidies. there's not much money to be made carting around broke-ass losers like yourself.

>>1046668
But if people had been able to stomach the idea of government-subsidized rail a decade earlier, we could have had a single, dedicated rail line for Chicago-Milwaukee service, instead of subsidizing both the UP North Line and the Hiawatha to serve the same market.

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>>1046652
Thanks for the post, OP. Really made me think.

Now take the MILWpill. The de-electrification and abandonment of the Milwaukee Road's pacific extension will go down as one of the most heinous corporate conspiracies in American history.

>>1046652
No long range planning.
Because politicians only think about the duration of their tenure;
Because the general public only cares about the Now situation, or at most the term of an average mortgage.

As you and I can see, future generations be damned. We still collectively think like this today. We dont want to pay for something now that the future generations will enjoy. Hooray for the walmart generation.

>>1046652
>Implying that the government should be in the business of running railroads and bailing out failing corporations.
Nope.

>>1046979
The government has always been in the railroad business and it should remain so.

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>>1046692
Your Milwaukee Road spent the '50s and '60s whoring itself out for mergers that never happened and let itself fall into disrepair, not just physically, but corporately and spiritually.

The North Shore Line fought the good fight up until the end. Their mechanical shops were still modernizing cars the night it was abandoned.

>>1046692
Running those bi-polars was not cheap. They couldn't run steamers because of the rough country. Didn't help that Milwaukee Road was hood rich. Not like Rock Island which was ghetto.

>>1046674
You're right. We shouldn't subsidize either.

>>1050477
On the contrary, we should subsidize both more.