German Trains for US Cities?
According to Der Spiegel, Siemens and Deutsche Bahn (German Rail) want to build a network of high speed trains in the US modeled after Germany’s Intercity Express (ICE) system. I’ll “hold my thumbs”...
View ArticleMy Beautiful ICE Bubble is Popped
That dour realist, Robert J. Samuelson, lost no time in exploding my lovely fantasy of speeding German ICE liners flashing over the rails between our cities. Well, I can always hope the folks at...
View ArticleMinnesota in 1854: An Account by a Remarkable Englishman
The easy availability of a vast library of books is not the least of the Internet’s many gifts. If you find a reference to some interesting volume published before 1922, you are more than likely to...
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