It's not shopped, but it was taken with a long lens, which exaggerates the rail deformities.

That said, treating the railroads with indifferent contempt while handing out fat federal subsidies to airlines and highway builders has been a DC tradition since the end of WWII.

Amarican railroads were once the wonder and envy of the world. Foreigners are amazed that we have allowed this deliberate deterioration to happen.