July - 2017

Airline seating for Amtrak?

That’s exactly what I said; and, in my sometimes-humble opinion, that’s just not what Amtrak needs. But that’s exactly what lame-duck...

Is passenger transportation bad business?

Don Phillips is a transportation reporter, and a damn good one. For a good part of his forty-year career, he has written a column for...

Congestion, population growth, and safety

Today, I'd like to take a look at a possible alternate way to view the frequency of railroad accidents. I don’t want to fill the first...

And then there were two – Amtrak appoints Richard Anderson

I had high hopes for Wick Moorman, but Mr. Moorman didn’t really want to be CEO of Amtrak. I suppose that now, not even a year into his...

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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.