Because you apparently do not have a “letters to the editor section,” this is my letter to you.
The new Time-Table issue 177 contains an article on the Illinois Railway Museum. This is a truly excellent article with many great pictures. I only have one complaint. Mr. Leonard refers to the museum buildings as “hangars”. Hangars are for airplanes. Barns are for trolleys and sheds are for train equipment storage. The trolley barn in Oklahoma City was an important place for street railway fans back when I was a kid there. And I lived part of my young life in the Frisco roundhouse in the days of steam.
Since air travel will continue to decline and rail travel increase due the price of fuel, lets get away from airplane terminology and back to railroad and trolley terms. Air travel is the most fuel inefficient mode of travel ever devised by mankind. Only the SST was worse. Rail travel is on the rise. Lets enjoy it.
Again, it was a great article and I always enjoy every issue of the Time-Table. Many thanks,
Ron Nott
Farmington, NM
Response from the author:
Thank you for your letter. Air travel may be and should decline for short trips, but for long hauls, it remains, rightly, the only viable option. I would very much like to ride a high-speed train from Los Angeles to San Francisco, or Las Vegas... but from Los Angeles to New York, I’ll gladly fly, no matter how supposedly fuel-inefficient it is. That said, I apologize for my misuse of the term “hangar”; I took it to be a generic term for any long building used for transit storage, but it is indeed specific to aerospace storage.
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