This is why France, Germany and Spain leap ahead of us year after year, their democracies regardless of which party is in power has to answer to the voters or they get thrown out. The Senate was part of the great compromise to the slave owners to bring them into the union.

You need to go back to high school history class. Slavery was not an issue in 1776 (it was legal everywhere). The desire to give individual colonies (who were basically quasi-independent states) a vote was the issue. Thus, a federation of the states was created.

Anyway I can’t speak for France or Spain, but Germany is also a federal republic. (In fact, we helped them set it up that way.) The reason their infrastructure is better than ours is largely cultural. After all, if Americans demanded better infrastructure, we’d get it too. The Senate wouldn’t stop it. The fact is, most Americans just don’t care.

Colorado Railcar has been liquidated.

The train is routinely sold out for months in advanced and there is definitely demand for more capacity along the route.

I credit the extreme success of this route do to the nature of the area, the train is probably the most reliant form of transportation that close to Canada.

I reiterate the train through Montana is actually the closest to profit and nicest train in the entire Amtrak system.

Oh, so you are saying that makes it all Democratic. If you have one part equal + one part unequal do you you think that equals an = total. So the House of the People passes legislation, one man one vote, and that gets vetoed by another Senate where it is one state two votes regardless of population and that equals democracy.

This is why France, Germany and Spain leap ahead of us year after year, their democracies regardless of which party is in power has to answer to the voters or they get thrown out. The Senate was part of the great compromise to the slave owners to bring them into the union. The effects are still with us and this is one of them.

It’s crazy to say “no” to Montana just because Florida has no rail.

Not if it’s mostly Federal money paying for it. IMHO it’s crazy to put rail where hardly anyone is going to use it.

And great to call out the AP on their use of “enthusiasts”.

New York has one Senator for each 9,500,000 citizens. Montana has one Senator for each 451,000 citizens. That gives Monatana twenty times the per capita representation in the US Senate as New York.

I like railroads and think that Montana can have a very nice rail arrangement up there mostly because all the open space generates much less NIMBY opposition when service is created. However, when it comes to the distribution of Federal resources what hope do the large states really have to push something through the Senate? How much do you have to bribe the empty space states to write legislation?

A train to nowhere is just as bad as a bridge to nowhere.