Build It and They Won’t Come
27th September 2021
It’s too soon to know what caused the Saturday derailment of Amtrak’s Empire Builder that took the lives of three people. What we do know is that a train that had room for at least 350 paying passengers was carrying fewer than 150 (reports vary between 141 and 147).
Sounds as if the ones that didn’t take the train were the smart ones. Trains take you from where you aren’t to where you don’t want to be, and take twice as long (at least) as other forms of transportation. Who needs that?