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Light rails are too bus-like to impress most commuters, too squished and close to the ground. Monorails, by contrast, strike a chord with travelers. There's something about the sleek designs, the pillowy rides, and the panoramic views that just enchants.

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

The slow pace of trains in the U.S. can be maddening, particularly during delays on rail sidings for an hour or more to enable freight trains - which have the right-of-way - to pass.

Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can claim no such devoted fan base.

While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that.