[Phantom Lord]

Everything you buy got to where you bought it by truck. Build all the rail you want, but eventually every product you purchase still got to the store in a truck.

[biblewonk]

Everything you buy got to where you bought it by truck. Build all the rail you want, but eventually every product you purchase still got to the store in a truck.

Not my electricity, nor the raw corn syrup in my pepsi, nor the steak in my bicycle, nor the coal used to process it, nor everything else hauled by rail. Only most final products get to stores by truck but if most of the steps in the process were on rail, your point becomes kind of meaningless doesn't it.

[Publius]

Everything you buy got to where you bought it by truck. Build all the rail you want, but eventually every product you purchase still got to the store in a truck.

But there is a difference between long-haul and short-haul trucking. The author of this piece understands that a higher-speed freight rail system can free the interstates of many long-haul trucks. Virginia and Tennessee are both looking at funding rail expansion in lieu of building more lanes on I-81 and I-40.