Introduction
3

Foreword
5

Chapter 1 - A Typical Mountain Journey
9

Chapter 2 - Mountain Highway Congestion . . . Bad and worsening
15

Chapter 3 - A Future Journey?
21

Chapter 4 - An Alternative . . . the SMARTrans Way
25

Chapter 5 - Why Meter-Gauge?
33

Chapter 6 - Up and Over
37

Chapter 7 - Let's Build It!
43

Chapter 8 - Speed . . . How Fast Makes Sense
51

Chapter 9 - Colorado and $$$
59

Chapter 10 - Workers . . . the Vital Link
65

Chapter 11 - Operating SMARTrans
71

Chapter 12 - Constructing SMARTrans
81

Chapter 13 - Business Commuters
87

Chapter 14 - $2 Million . . . Down the Drain!
91

Chapter 15 - ELF
99

Chapter 16 - The Engineer's Interview
105

Chapter 17 - Back to the Future
115

Chapter 18 - How to Get It Done
117

Postscript
126

Ordering Information
127

About the Author
129

Acknowledgments
132

Disclaimer
133

Index
135

There is also a color photograph section, pages "a" through "p."