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Five Ways Freight Rail Moves our Cities Forward

November 7, 2019

This is a guest post by Michael Gaynor, assistant vice president of field operations for GoRail.

As Americans, we see transportation as freedom. Give us a car and the open road, a bustling transit system, or bike lanes for miles. Transportation connects us to people and opportunity—and good infrastructure can make our lives better. This notion doesn’t end at the modes that move people.

Freight trains are often the forgotten side of rail infrastructure, chugging day in, day out across our cities to deliver goods we rely on. Everything from consumer products to food to energy resources moves by rail.

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