Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: You’re gearing up to start a new factory project. In the process of making sure you have enough materials to achieve the desired output, it comes to light that not only is there not enough already produced but in order to meet the supply that your desired output demands, you’re going to have to engage in a large transportation infrastructure build-out to get everything from everywhere to the best possible build site. “If I had a nickel,” as the meme goes.

And that’s how I ended up, this weekend, embarking on yet another large rail-network expansion project.

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