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RE: (erielack) Controversial Subject?
> Today's railroads have to adjust to even greater paradigm
> shifts. The US has very firmly become an "information
> society" now, no longer an "industrial society." And that
> shift can clearly be seen in today's railroads: The vast
> majority of today's trains are made up of covered hoppers and
> tank cars - which carry the materials to create a high-tech
> society (plastics, chemicals used in production of circuit
> boards, etc.)
I forgot to mention that those giant "construction debris" cars are an
indirect result of the high-tech society (high-tech industries =
wealthier management = bigger houses in 'desirable areas' = demolition
of old houses)
:)
- Paul
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