A good idea comes and is adopeted by a few ... then others pick it up, so the special becomes the norm.  And old ideas fade out and get replaced - such is change.

And so, when I was in the USA last week, I made a number of railroad journeys and learn something of their pricing system, their trains, their ticketing, their handling of enginnering works ..... and I'm posting a link to a partial report here on our "future" board.   Some of the things I describe have been and gone in the UK, otherw will never make it here, and yet others perhaps are what we'll be seeing in a few years time.     Have a look at what I've written .. and see which trends you would like to see coming "over here"

http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1314_Business-travel-by-train-in-the-USA.html