Orphan Road

For hard-core rail advocates, there was never a better candidate in the 2008 presidential race than Bill Richardson, who not only talked the talk as a presidential candidate, but also walked the walk by launching a passenger rail service in Albuquerque when he was governor of New Mexico.

But now that Richardson's gone, we rail junkies will have to get our fix from Barack Obama, who's the only candidate left who's still interested in rail transit as a way to reduce our dependence on oil.

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