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Metro's futuristic Light Rail trains are lit up like Christmas trees. If you were to model one, you'd need several packs of LED's and some really advanced DCC to control the rolling light show. All the stations are also lit up. Most of the street trackage is bordered by speed balls which if hit, ought to make ordinary speed bumps feel like a waterbed. Understand that here, we have idiot drivers that run into freight trains. I don't mean trying to beat the train across (they do that, too), but plow right into a train that has already been crossing the highway. Of course, how can you steer with a cell phone in one hand and a pistol in the other. That means the passenger must also act as bartender. Yes, it's that bad! I get worked up almost everyday I drive to work. Over half the newer vehicles are Sluggish Unnecessary Vehicles driven by Yuppie fools that haven't figured out that there is horsepower under the hood. Then there are all those overloaded trucks whose cargo ought to be moving by rail. Add to this the military convoys from Ft Hood moving to the Port of Houston to go fight in another oil war. Don't forget the veiled women whose husbands are trying to turn our country into the same kind of Third World country they left behind. Houston's streetcar system was shut down before World War II. The North Shore interurban lasted longer, in fact the diesel railbus remnant lasted into the 1960's. The Houston-Galveston Electric was bought out by a consortium of oil companies in 1936. It never ran in the red. My only complaint about the light rail line is that it is so little, so late. I wrote Metro 20 years ago and told them that 10 of the 14 rail routes radiating from Houston are suitable for upgrading into a Chicago style commuter rail system that could be electrified later. They gave me a "not invented here" answer. <br /> Stephanie Stout
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