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Randal O'Toole is a Cato Institute Senior Fellow working on urban growth, public land, and transportation issues.

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Hardcover: 300 pages

Publisher: Cato Institute (October 26, 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1944424946

ISBN-13: 978-1944424947

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6.5 x 1.4 x 9.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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Well a lot of rail fans are going to be greatly disappointed when they get this book from a well-meaning relative as a holiday gift.It has got a lovely foamer (rail enthusiast) dust cover featuring postcards of the “golden age” of rail travel in the 1950s, when stylish streamline trains ran across America from sea-to-shining-sea. In big white letters there is the title: “Romance of the Rails” — but it’s the sub-titled that is key: “Why the Passenger Trains We Love Are Not the Transportation We Need”.This book is authored by anti-rail critic Randal O’Toole and was published by the CATO Institute, the Koch Brother supported conservative think tank in Washington DC. This is not to say that Mr. O’Toole is not an enthusiast of railroad history, in this book he writes of frequent travel by train across the world and across the country on Amtrak. It’s just that because rail is often subsidized by the government his political philosophy leads him to state that passenger trains shouldn’t exist.He states frequently ad nauseam that rail transit, overnight trains, and high-speed rail is an “obsolete” technology patronized by “elites” and supported by “corrupt” politicians. He lampoons smart regional planning and urban redevelopment projects. The future is self-driving ride-share robo-cars he claims, with airplanes for long-distance travel. Passenger trains should go the way of the stagecoach. Of course, until then — he’ll keep riding them!This is not to say that Mr. O’Toole doesn’t make some fair points including about Amtrak accounting practices and transit agencies building light-rail at the expense of better bus service that would better serve lower-income residents. However, he is dogmatically against passenger rail with selective use of statistics and facts paints an unflattering portrait of what he frequently calls an “obsolete” mode of transport used only by “elites”.Mr. O’Toole writes about high-speed trains that because French citizens don’t regularly ride the TGV it’s not a useful means of transportation — well most Americans don’t fly Southwest or ride Megabus to work or the cinema either!This could have been a book on how reform of passenger rail in the United States by adopting best-practices in construction, operations, marketing, management, and financing from overseas could revolutionize rail transport in the USA. But Mr. O’Toole was careful not to do that, since pointing out that there is a lot better way to run a passenger railroad, could be seen on the part of readers of making an argument for rail!Mr. O’Toole’s argument against passenger rail would be more convincing if perhaps he stopped riding passenger trains himself. One can basically sum up his book as a man who loves riding trains telling others to stop doing so!

As a life long railfan and rider of rail transit both commuter, Amtrak, and trains throughout the world, I reluctantly support this books conclusions. Perhaps if money grew on trees, everyone could share all the joys I have had riding trains. I wish it were so!! But too often my commuter train rides were only well patronized for short intervals depending on time of day or distance from origin or destination. I have been on too many “fully booked” Amtrak sleeping cars with many rooms empty much of the time due to fluctuating demand caused by passengers with varying origins and destinations getting on and off. I know there are those out there who believe that if we taxed folks like the Koch brothers enough we could have all these trains with lots more goodies from our government. Maybe they are right. I hope so but doubt it. Book bought on my wife’s account. I read the book. Phil Klopp

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, just as I thoroughly enjoyed chasing SP&S 700 through the deserts of Washington state in the early 1990's. How interesting that Randal O'Toole was one of the volunteers who helped restore that locomotive. I too am a railfan, but a person (and a government, as well) must have principles to guide his or her actions. For me, there is God, family, country, and employer. Nothing may be done to advance the interests of the lower entities in violation of the rights of the higher entities. Therefore, I will not steal for my employer, since that would violate my higher obligations to God (not that my employer asks me to).By the same token, just because I like trains, I have no right to have others subsidize my preferences. Fortunately, people's behavior in the free market, when they restrict themselves to moral choices (e.g., one cannot work as a hit man) will result in the market producing what is needed and distributing it fairly. Our ultimate problem in America, of which O'Toole gives countless examples, is that people's money (which they earn by their labor) is forcibly taken by the government and given to others (elites, in fact) who have no rightful claim to it. This book gives countless examples of rail projects which cost hundreds of millions of dollars PER MILE to build, and which very few people ride. Be honest, how many people do you know who take a train to work? If you live near a commuter rail line (outside NYC), how many people ride it compared to how many drive to work? Are all those who drive to work late every day? Can we rightly assume that their cost of driving must be lower what their cost of using the train would be, if the train even goes where they would need it to go? I lived in the Washington, DC area for a couple of years, and NEVER once used the metro in the course of my normal activities, and very few times outside of that. Large parking garages downtown would doubtless be cheaper.Beyond the rail-related things in the book (and the railroad history was totally fascinating, and educational, even for me), O'Toole illuminates the growth & evolution of cities, architecture, and other modes of transportation in America. The underlying message is that if government is giving away money, somebody will be there to take it. We see that i the Credit Mobilier scandal associated with the transcontinental railroad, and we see it again today with these insane rail projects (again, do YOU actually ride them for any practical purpose?).The scariest thing is that rail boondoggles are just a tip of the iceberg of government waste. I wish the government would stay out of matters that rightly belong to the free market, and leave me alone. I didn't get to ride the inaugural run of the new Cascades train (in which I might have gotten a nice souvenir broken leg, or worse), but I did get to suffer greatly in the government-induced housing bubble, which comes from the same mindset that gives us Amtrak, et al. They have a vision of how the world should be, and they will try to herd us like cattle in their efforts to make it work. So many people have jobs that produce things that nobody will voluntarily pay for, and we would all be so much better off if those people were made to do useful work for a living. The government unjustly took some of my money to save 10 minutes travel time for a few people in Washington state, whose half-empty train then fell onto a crowded interstate. The interstate, by the way, is paid for by the gas taxes of those who actually use it, and it will ALWAYS carry more people than will Amtrak.I assume Mr. O'Toole studies transportation issues in great depth, so I was especially happy that he sees self-driving cars being common in the future. I am no environmentalist, but I look forward to a day when self-driving electric cars will eliminate or reduce oil changes, excessive auto parts, convenience stores, hotels, and short airline flights.I bought the Kindle version and could barely put it down. Thanks, Mr. O'Toole, for leaving me tired during the day after staying up too late reading your book : )

This is an extremely well argued book on all forms of moving people by rail. It effectively destroys the arguments for subsidies to Amtrak a d building costly and unnecessary light rail systems like the foolhardy Metrolink in Saint Louis. The author clearly loves traveling by rail but sums it up neatly in the final paragraph of the book:“Although we might want great trains in our fantasy of what the world should be like, the reality is we don’t need trains. Most Americans don’t ride the trains we have, nor would they ride them even if they met some arbitrary definition of “great.” We love passenger trains, and we will remember them in museums and tourist lines. But if the government stays involved in transportation at all, it should be to prepare for the next revolution in transportation, not to try to reverse the previous ones.”

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