John-Galt-Line

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This is the chapter. If you read only one chapter of Atlas Shrugged, make it this one. Chapter 8 is where Rand stops building tension and lets everything explode into pure, unfiltered triumph. The best product launch scene ever written in fiction.

When the Board Says No, You Build It Yourself

The Taggart board won’t approve building the Colorado rail line with Rearden Metal. Too risky. Too controversial. Public opinion is against it. So Dagny does what any builder does when the committees won’t let them ship. She creates a separate entity called “The John Galt Line” and builds it herself.