After Impressive Pandemic Showing, Rail Poised to Become the Beating Heart of America’s Industrial Resurgence

1 Jun 2023

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Looking at a map of the 140,000-mile-long U.S. rail network you could imagine it as a nation-spanning circulatory system. Its tracks have the branching look of a land-based vascular organ, pumping passengers, and needed goods from within the central parts of the country and out to its extremities.

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