Just when you need a comprehensive national passenger transportation strategy…
Not entirely unexpectedly, the Trump administration’s budget proposals for the next fiscal year, if passed by Congress in their entirety,...
Grade crossings – calls for more laws and more technology may not cut it
Early March saw a fatal grade crossing accident in Biloxi, Mississippi, involving a casino tour bus and a CSX freight train. News of...
GLBR now or never? An argument in favor of now
Something called the Great Lakes Basin Railroad (GLBR) has been an idea in the works since 2011. I’ve written about this idea in...
Electrification as environmental palliative
Near the end of last week’s blog post, I noted nothing railroad related was happening on the political front. The day before I posted,...
Surprises
As 2017 reaches its stride, the news on railroads, both passenger and freight, appears to be evening out as well. Not that there weren’t...