I sure wonder when the US wil come to its senses and heavily fund railroads...
And I'm curious...are you an engineer for the railroad...or a railroad engineer (if you get my distinction)? "Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
(Disclaimer: and elsewhere also, of course) In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes