Re: Expansion at railroad shop in Antonito

davidtltc Wrote:
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> Yes, I understood. Our company ships via rubber
> wheels most of the time from the ports and from
> the airport hubs.
>
> Consider that for a moment though, in the earlier
> nineteen hundreds rail was the fastest type of
> transportation to get things from the Atlantic to
> the Pacific side of of the free world. Faster than
> foot, hoof or wagon train. By the end of World War
> ll this was no longer the case. Many personnel
> started taking matters into their own hands using
> the freedom of vehicular technology to answer the
> demands for sales and production profits. Soon
> many, John/Jane Q. Public and or small mom and pop
> to big corporations started moving small items to
> massive orders via dirt roads taking over the
> monopolized forms of massive transportation that
> rail, metal wheels on metal rail served. Rails
> soon started to loose their shine, and it wasn't
> long before the oxidizing rails were ripped up and
> taken out of the hubs of this nations societies.
> We are now in a different period of time where
> rail no longer dominates the infrastructure of our
> modern society. And patience is a trait of the
> past century.

Couple of years ago, we ordered a Sunsetter awning for the patio. With shipment tracking, I watched it proceed from Massachusetts through Chicago on to San Francisco, then back to Denver before sauntering down to our house in Colorado Springs. That routing could have been optimized a bit, don'tcha think? A hundred years ago, such a shipment would probably have taken 20 times as long, even if not routed 2000 miles out of the way, and we wouldn't have received progressive telegrams advising us of its progress...

Kind of an aside, last night I watched over my wife's shoulder as she followed the pizza delivery person inch-by-inch, direct from Domino's to our house, no side-trips to Limon or whatnot. Oh, we did watch a grocery delivery person one Sunday go to church with our perishable groceries before delivering them to our door. What have we come to??????