I know, an ode is a lyric poem, something short and sometimes sung. I’m no poet, I don’t do “short” well, and you don’t want me to sing. But this story is an encomium to majestic train terminals between which America’s passenger trains once traveled each day by the hundreds. I should point out that […]
America’s High-Speed Rail: ‘I Think I Can, I Think I Can’
Posted June 28th, 2011 at 7:07 pm (UTC-4)
A dozen or so years ago, Carol — my photographer wife whose images often grace this space — was hired by Amtrak to go to Pueblo, Colorado, where the passenger railroad was testing America’s version of the Japanese “bullet train.” Although our nation was embarrassingly late to the party, high-speed train travel was finally pulling […]
