Anti rail sentiment has been with us since the advent of rail itself and really the arguments haven't changed. https://www.archives.gov/files/education/lessons

Anti rail sentiment has been with us since the advent of rail itself and really the arguments haven't changed. https://www.archives.gov/files/education/lessons/anti-rail/images/propaganda-poster.gif https://www.archives.gov/files/education/lessons/anti-rail/i... The same arguments against rail can be made (for example) against new roads and exactly for the same reasons: they just go one place, you have to fight land owners to put them in and what if no one uses them?