Transportation

Modern time began in 1883: Railroads gave us Standard Time. 35 years later, Congress gave us DST

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Just what time that sun’ll come out is up to Congress.

Having balanced the budget, passed the SAVE Act and restricted insider trading by congressmen and congressional staffers, members of the House and the Senate are debating time itself. The issue is whether we should go to year-round daylight savings time, year-round standard time or just leave the whole thing alone and keep changing our clocks twice a year.

Travel-Trailer-Train

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Automobile-pulled travel-trailers have been around almost as long as passenger trains. But locomotive rail travel is nearly extinct due to excessive government regulations, freight traffic conflicts and costs. Time might be right for creating Travel-Trailer-Trains  – coupling together multiple travel-type trailers that have been made into full trailers (wheels at each end).