The 3-Foot Pipe: Rail Road Right Of Ways

The cascading effect of a simple idea
You most likely have seen it perhaps hundreds of times, out the window of an airliner crossing the US. Those long straight lines that seemingly go off into nowhere, especially in that brown section of the Country, what are those? Those are railroad right of ways. There are some 165,000 miles of those right of ways, criss crossing the Country, built between late 1700's to the early 1900's. I was working on Corporate Staff for Flying Tigers and flying back...