April - 2017

Funding for what, exactly?

While we we’re writing about scheduled railroading, a group of United States senators got together to push for Amtrak funding. The...

Scheduled railroading

I’ll bet there are a lot of people out there who think all railroading is scheduled. It’s not. There is going to be a lot of talk about...

Getting out of the political tangle...and other fairy tales.

Here in America, we live in a world where only the politically possible gets done. We have lived in it for some time now, in fact so...

Passenger rail plods ahead - then two steps back

For all the hand wringing over cuts for Amtrak and passenger rail in the federal budget, projects and proposed projects to increase or...

WE SUPPORT PASSENGER RAIL

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ABOUT ME

I have written about railroads for 10+ years, and I am an avid train watcher and amateur railroad historian. I was born in Chicago in the late 40s and grew up a stone's throw from the main line of the old CB&Q, route of famous trains like the California Zephyr, Empire Builder, and North Coast Limited. I am also an author and have published a series of novels involving a train-watching detective.