Gregory's Server@CelloMomOnCars With Rail so essential to Canada’s history you’d think the country would have a sophisticated rail system by now. A surprisingly candid N Post: Level of corruption astounding. Did this set a standard of mediocrity? https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/railroad-building-in-the-19th-century-was-an-orgy-of-corruption-but-hey-it-built-a-country
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I was starting to draft a reply about US coal, steel, and railroad barons in the 19th century but then the article said this:
"Even in the most hideously corrupt corners of the Gilded Age United States, Canada was still known as the land where graft reigned supreme."
Oof.
And of course in the 20th century it's the oil barons that pushed rail travel into an obscure corner.