You've seen the ads for the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. Here are some facts, a lot of them, about it.
It's a really interesting article. Still I have to ask, with all our technology, why is it that Des Moines, the capital city of a great state, has no passenger rail service? Because very frankly, for travel within the lower 48 states, I'd rather take the train.
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Tom