So, when the Union Station remodel and modernization is completed, I should be able to buy a bus ticket (assuming it charged the night before) for a series of transfers that will over the course of a week to a month or two (depending upon the number of cloudy days) take me to the Bakersfield/Merced elevated train station where I can purchase another bus ticket to LA? Assuming the wind is blowing that day?
We’re from the government and we’re here to help…
This is Union Station in DC, not LA.
But I want to travel from DC to LA. Surely by rail in 2040+ that would entail a stop at the major hub in Bakersfield, so that I could catch a bus to LA?
An all electric bus of course…
Folks, I need to point out to you that a lot of this bureaucratic infrastructure was set up during Nixon I. If Nixon were running today he’d look like the rinnyest of RINOs. At least in terms of conservative bona-fides. Never forget COWPS.
What impresses me more, is how well Barry Goldwater has stood the test of time. Had he won in ’64, he would have been our last president born in a Territory not a lower 48 State.
“What impresses me more, is how well Barry Goldwater has stood the test of time. Had he won in ’64”
The 64 election may well be the crucial turning point in the history of the USA.
Harry Turtledove, call your office.
Harry Turtledove is a woke Commie.
“One hundred and fifty years ago, it took three private companies just six years to build the transcontinental railroad… That’s almost 1,200 miles of track laid in three fewer years than it took today’s Federal Railroad Administration to issue one environmental report on the redevelopment of a single station.”
That’s good…but not great.
In just one breathtaking page of his remarkable memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant showed what can be done. Preparing for the Battle of Chattanooga required rebuilding the railroads that the retreating Confederates had destroyed. Grant selected General Grenville Mellen Dodge for the job.
“General Dodge, besides being a a most capable soldier, was an experienced railroad builder. He had no tools to work with except those of pioneers – axes, picks, and spades…As he had no base of supplies…the first matter to consider after protecting his men was the getting in of food and forage from the surrounding country. He had his men and teams bring in all the grain they could find, or all they needed, and all the cattle for beef, and such other food as could be found. Millers were detailed from the ranks to run the mills…When these were not near enough…they were taken down and moved up to the line… Blacksmith shops, with all the iron and steel found in them, were moved up in like manner. Blacksmiths were detailed and set to work making the tools necessary in railroad and bridge building. Axe men were put to work getting out timber for bridges and cutting fuel for locomotives when the road coud be completed. Car builders were set to work repairing the locomotives and cars. Thus every branch of railroad building, making tools to work with, and supplying the workmen with food, was going on at once, and without the aid of a mechanic or laborer except what the command itself furnished.”
Grant concludes his narrative with two sentences that always bring a lump to my throat:
“General Dodge had the work assigned to him finished within forty days after receiving his orders. The number of bridges to rebuild was one hundred and eighty-two, many of them over deep and wide chasms; the length of road repaired was one hundred and two miles.”
So, when the Union Station remodel and modernization is completed, I should be able to buy a bus ticket (assuming it charged the night before) for a series of transfers that will over the course of a week to a month or two (depending upon the number of cloudy days) take me to the Bakersfield/Merced elevated train station where I can purchase another bus ticket to LA? Assuming the wind is blowing that day?
We’re from the government and we’re here to help…
This is Union Station in DC, not LA.
But I want to travel from DC to LA. Surely by rail in 2040+ that would entail a stop at the major hub in Bakersfield, so that I could catch a bus to LA?
An all electric bus of course…
Folks, I need to point out to you that a lot of this bureaucratic infrastructure was set up during Nixon I. If Nixon were running today he’d look like the rinnyest of RINOs. At least in terms of conservative bona-fides. Never forget COWPS.
What impresses me more, is how well Barry Goldwater has stood the test of time. Had he won in ’64, he would have been our last president born in a Territory not a lower 48 State.
“What impresses me more, is how well Barry Goldwater has stood the test of time. Had he won in ’64”
The 64 election may well be the crucial turning point in the history of the USA.
Harry Turtledove, call your office.
Harry Turtledove is a woke Commie.
“One hundred and fifty years ago, it took three private companies just six years to build the transcontinental railroad… That’s almost 1,200 miles of track laid in three fewer years than it took today’s Federal Railroad Administration to issue one environmental report on the redevelopment of a single station.”
That’s good…but not great.
In just one breathtaking page of his remarkable memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant showed what can be done. Preparing for the Battle of Chattanooga required rebuilding the railroads that the retreating Confederates had destroyed. Grant selected General Grenville Mellen Dodge for the job.
“General Dodge, besides being a a most capable soldier, was an experienced railroad builder. He had no tools to work with except those of pioneers – axes, picks, and spades…As he had no base of supplies…the first matter to consider after protecting his men was the getting in of food and forage from the surrounding country. He had his men and teams bring in all the grain they could find, or all they needed, and all the cattle for beef, and such other food as could be found. Millers were detailed from the ranks to run the mills…When these were not near enough…they were taken down and moved up to the line… Blacksmith shops, with all the iron and steel found in them, were moved up in like manner. Blacksmiths were detailed and set to work making the tools necessary in railroad and bridge building. Axe men were put to work getting out timber for bridges and cutting fuel for locomotives when the road coud be completed. Car builders were set to work repairing the locomotives and cars. Thus every branch of railroad building, making tools to work with, and supplying the workmen with food, was going on at once, and without the aid of a mechanic or laborer except what the command itself furnished.”
Grant concludes his narrative with two sentences that always bring a lump to my throat:
“General Dodge had the work assigned to him finished within forty days after receiving his orders. The number of bridges to rebuild was one hundred and eighty-two, many of them over deep and wide chasms; the length of road repaired was one hundred and two miles.”
We are such pussies today.