Most innovations, from jumbo grain-hopper cars to "rent-a-train" services, were blocked as sneaky ways to gain unfair competitive advantage.Even worse, the government spent billions of dollars building America's interstate highway system, which allowed trucks to emerge as a strong long-distance competitor, eventually taking more than 80% of the freight business.
Last year Mumford & Sons rented a train to barnstorm the southern United States, including Austin, Tex., and New Orleans, with bands it had brought together including Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes and the Old Crow Medicine Show; "Big Easy Express," a DVD documentary of the excursion, shows Mumford & Sons merrily jamming with its tourmates all along the way.
So get on the bus, catch a train, rent a car or saddle up your bike.
Next, rent a bike from the train station and ride along the promenade.
GETTING AROUND Maastricht is an easy walking city, but if you want to feel Dutch, rent a bike at the train station from Aon de Stasie (31-43-321-1100, www.aondeseveneuros for seven euros a day (plus deposit).
"Clients are preferring to take trains, rent a car or drive on their own".
To drive to Échenon, you could rent a car at the Dijon train station and take the A39 to the exit for St.-Jean-de-Losne/Auxonne, then Route N5 to D976.
But if you want to see Germany in a different way, take the train or rent a car and head to the south to the countryside.
By the same token, if the government were to provide you with the money to buy a train ticket or to rent a space to sleep in, then you would become able to perform these actions without being subject to the intentional coercion that you are subject to when you lack this money.
Anderson rented an Indian train (which was completely redone, in a highly ornamented style, for the shoot), and got permission from the government to film while running it on public tracks.
