Status Updates From Atlas Shrugged

Let the fun begin 🚂

Still over a thousand pages to go? Riveting story, thankfully, and heating up with passage of the Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog Rule that effectively shuts down Dan Conway's Phoenix-Durango line in Colorado. Francisco D'Anconia is on stage but hasn't crossed paths with Dagny yet.

"Everybody knows how...schedules have been run in the past three weeks, & why some districts...get transportation, while others don't. What we're not supposed to do is say that we know it. We're supposed to pretend to believe that 'public welfare' is the only reason for any decision - & that the public welfare of the city of New York requires the immediate delivery of a large quantity of grapefruit" (767-8).