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00:00 [Music]
00:10 All aboard!
00:12 [Beep, beep, beep]
00:15 The training to me is more interesting because you can see more, do more.
00:20 To me that's an experience because you're seeing so much of the wilderness
00:24 where normally you can't see by plane, you can't see by car,
00:27 and the only way you can do that is by rail.
00:31 [Music]
00:42 People are commuting longer distances.
00:44 In Paris we don't have the need to use a car.
00:49 In terms of carbon footprint, I definitely understand that it's a lot better to use, you know, subways and trains.
00:54 One of the factors that we considered in moving here was the savings that we would have in transportation expenses.
01:01 [Music]
01:10 The train came through. It really put Maplewood on the map in some ways.
01:14 The name of the town comes from the name of the station that was established first.
01:18 [Music]
01:31 I'm absolutely and completely a cheerleader for this project.
01:37 It's a disgrace in this country what we've done in terms of allowing our railroad system,
01:42 which was once a very fine one, to deteriorate.
01:45 People are very wary of making investments of that sort now for some reason.
01:49 They've forgotten that we did in the past, and that's why we had a good system.
01:55 But you don't let a good system deteriorate, or you shouldn't.
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