I've been very interested in this thread, especially having just read John
McPhee's recent 2-part article on Powder River coal trains in The New
Yorker (October 3 & 10, 2005). McPhee focuses mainly on UP operations (with
some railroad-related digressions for an audience obviously comprised
mainly of non-railfans and certainly non-railroaders), but the issues he
explores are broad and surely also affect the BNSF -- indeed affect the
entire country.
McPhee, for those unfamiliar, is one the more eminent
environmental/regional/landscape writers in America today -- and also
apparently a serious railfan. Some of his descriptions in these essays are
wonderfully vivid, and the problems he lays out are thought-provoking,
sobering, even scary, on a lot of levels. Wondering whether anyone else on
the list has read these articles and has reactions to them.
Jonathan
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