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February, 2011

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  • The 'TGV' on CNBC.com News 'Squawk On The Street'...

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    "STREET POLL: High-Speed Rail Over Driving of Flying?" --- out of a total of 1978 votes 54% pro-HSR vs 46% anti-HSR .---express your support to: sots@cnbc.com General Electric/NBC does a lousy job promoting anything rail to the American audience...
  • It is rumoured that Florida Governor Rick Scott...

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    is under the influence of OPEC & friends, AAA, Southwest, Delta and other Airlines, National, Hertz and other Car Rental outfits, Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation, The Limbaugh-Beck-Christie-Kasich-Walker Obesity & Auto-Truck Dependency Foundation...
  • Ray LaHood-Transportation Secretary-on C-SPAN TV...

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    The Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was hosted on the WASHINGTON JOURNAL of Friday 18th February 07:00 call in show. Infrastructure Spending & Job Creation was the subject of the call in show. He was taking call from TV viewers covering...
  • ! ELECTRIFIED !

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    A.D. 1925, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA "You can not know how much ELECTRIC POWER has brought to modern railway travel until you ride on on the electrified Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul between Chicago and Puget Sound." "Here...
  • $53,000,000,000 for HIGH SPEED RAIL...

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    is a vital investment for the economic survival of the USA. remember this... "AMERICA'S ROADS to VICTORY are boulevards of steel and stamina.!"
  • "AMERICA'S ROADS to VICTORY"...

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    "are boulevards of steel and stamina" "FASTER, FASTER," is wartime America's cry to the railroads. Speed the troop trains! Speed the supply and munitions trains! Speed the critical materials to the factories!" "It's...
  • "LEADERS COUNT" by Lawrence H. Kaufman...

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    is great reading and really focuses on the "perfect storm" now raging in North America... ...how about a 2011 large-size 2nd edition filled with hundreds more photos and ads and even a Video DVD packed with BNSF documentary material too?