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Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service--A Year Spent Riding across America
Waiting on a Train The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail ServiceA Year Spent Riding across America
Author: James McCommons
During the tumultuous year of 2008?when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California?journalist James McCommons spent a year on America?s trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail jou...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781603580649
ISBN-10: 1603580646
Publication Date: 11/17/2009
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
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Quite a good book for anyone interested in the state of current U. S. rail travel. Author travels just about every route in the system, giving highlights of each experience. Much of the book is also taken up with interviews with various state and federal officials on the future of the system.

Recommended, although those looking strictly for a travel narrative might become frustrated with the (wonky) technical and policy digressions.
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