Railroad infrastructure
The new president’s plans for rail infrastructure improvement have been hard to come by, but showed up on lists reportedly circulated in...
Railroad concerns just popping up all over
Nothing big this week, but there are little things popping up that deserve mention on these blog pages. While the Surface Transportation...
Whither the railroads in 2017?
It’s not all gloom and doom for the railroads in 2017. Whether you come at it from the point of view of a railfan, or from the point of...
Nationalize the railroads? A "what if."
On December 26, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential order that effectively seized the railroads for the U.S. government....