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Episode 129: East Palestine Derailment

Well There‘s Your Problem

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The History of the Railroads

In the early 20th century, there's lots of these attempts to consolidate railroads into much bigger systems. A lot of them fail miserably. Once the railroad started like the entire 50 hour con rail saga. Like N and W and like the chess system were just fueled by like piles of sub-bituminous coal that they're breaking billions of dollars on. Just buying a pass like loading and bankruptcy.

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