When the Chinatown bus overheats in a Connecticut rest stop, just ride your bike down the interstate to the nearest Metro-North Station. Ticket from Milford to Grand Central: $12.65.

washed out bridges -> emergency rail line in phoenix

Staged train wreck, 1896. 40k spectators, 2 killed. crushilepsy!

MBTA puts up a website.

Green Line (E) showing on-street ROW. slow(er) but space efficient

masterpiece (note llb: music about trains) "Train whistles tell the story: the American trains in the first and last movements have a soft, benign sound; the European ones in the central movement shriek fiercely."

great 1874 brooklyn map. north to lowerleft. check out sunset park street grid extending into the harbor.

long-gone Brooklyn Els

heavy, light & commuter rail transit speeds.

During the first half of the 1900s, the Horseshoe Curve was considered, along with the Panama Canal, the Empire State Building, and the Bay Bridge at San Francisco, one of the engineering "Wonders of the World."