From the time I was about 5 years old my father has been telling me the railroads and trains are going to make a huge comeback. He based this on the fact that he always believed the railroad could be adapted to provide the most cost effective and efficient form of transport...ahh...and he was always a huge railroad fan, model trains and all that. The guy used to go out and lay railroad track on the weekends for fun! Tossed railroad ties around like toothpicks. This was not a guy you wanted to be on the wrong side of. Of course his arms were so huge the guy had to buy nothing but short sleeve shirts because they did not make long sleeve shirts that would fit over his Popeye like forearms not to mention his biceps. Anyway I never listened and now it seems he may have been right.