[TowerDude]

Originally Posted by electricron

Take your blinders off! How many trained to operate and repair train engineers and track gangs were the US military releasing back into the American economy after the war, in relative to the number of trained jeep, truck, tank, drivers and motor pool mechanics? 1 in 100, 1 in a 1000, 1 in a 100,000, or 1 in a 1,000,000?
Looking at it a different way, how many miles of new make shift roads did the US Corps of Engineers build around the world vs miles of new railroad corridors during the war? Far more miles of airport runways and seaports wharfs were built than railroad tracks. Whereas I will agree the railroads were ran down during the war, there was plenty of tracks, rolling stock, and railroad personnel around to meet America's immediate needs. I suggest there were over a million valid reasons why post war America thought highways, seaways, and airways were the future of transportation and not the railroads. Ir was what they were trained to do.

Everything you post here is a distraction from the actual purpose of this forum thread.

Stop it.