{"id":46199,"date":"2019-01-10T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46199"},"modified":"2018-12-21T18:16:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T23:16:12","slug":"what-happened-to-americas-passenger-trains-the-truth-from-class-to-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/10\/what-happened-to-americas-passenger-trains-the-truth-from-class-to-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to America&#8217;s Passenger Trains?! The Truth &#8211; from Class to Crap!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eDbNGMIosVU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>American Rail Club<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 1 Jul 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did America&#8217;s once industrious and world-famous passenger rail system fall because of &#8220;fair and equal&#8221; competition &#8211; or did the federal government tax it to death? Did America&#8217;s shift from rails to roads come out naturally &#8211; or from lobbying from General Motors? We visit two of America&#8217;s passenger rail cars from a bygone era to reminisce and then dive into the history and truth behind the decline of America&#8217;s passenger railroad system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Rail Club Published on 1 Jul 2017 Did America&#8217;s once industrious and world-famous passenger rail system fall because of &#8220;fair and equal&#8221; competition &#8211; or did the federal government tax it to death? Did America&#8217;s shift from rails to roads come out naturally &#8211; or from lobbying from General Motors? We visit two of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,84,7,237,13],"tags":[185,45,793],"class_list":["post-46199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-history","category-railways","category-usa","tag-highspeedrail","tag-nostalgia","tag-subsidies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-c19","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46200,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46199\/revisions\/46200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}