12-12-2016, 10:39 AM
In some ways, they actually had advantages of getting on with their system much earlier. Look at the eastern terminus at Blair, and the track heading west from there. Because it had been long ago created as a transitway right of way, there weren't the same acquisition costs, or building encroachment issues as we had. Certainly, some hard work had to go into the inappropriately-curved segments around Train, and then the obvious tunneling costs, but in many ways their system has been less disruptive.