Atlas Shrugged trailer

But this is aimed at an American audience. And in America trains threaten the profits of special interests and help poor people find jobs.

I thought trains were the original special interest that wealth was made on? Or maybe that was cotton.

Seems like light rail is viewed your way though.



Rotten Tomatoes gives it a very low critic grade, but apparently it pulls in its target audience.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/atlas_shrugged_part_i/

Based on the synopsis, I find Nikola Tesla's biography to be more inspirational. Tesla invented AC! And fought Edison! And dug ditches even!

Synopsis: Dagny Taggart (Taylor Schilling) runs Taggart Transcontinental, the largest remaining railroad company in America, with intelligence, courage and integrity, despite the systematic disappearance of her best and most competent workers. She is drawn to industrialist Henry Rearden (Grant Bowler), one of the few men whose genius and commitment to his own ideas match her own. Rearden's super-strength metal alloy, Rearden Metal, holds the promise that innovation can overcome the slide into anarchy. Using the untested Rearden Metal, they rebuild the critical Taggart rail line in Colorado and pave the way for oil titan Ellis Wyatt (Graham Beckel) to feed the flame of a new American Renaissance. Hope rises again, when Dagny and Rearden discover the design of a revolutionary motor based on static electricity - in an abandoned engine factory - more proof to the sinister theory that the "men of the mind" (thinkers, industrialists, scientists, artists, and other innovators) are "on strike" and vanishing from society. -- (C) Official Site Less
 
I thought trains were the original special interest that wealth was made on?

You're right. It was railroads that got the Robber Barons started. Then
after the Civil War the US government gave the RRs huge land grants in
the West which *really* got the money rolling in.
 
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