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HSR and Streamliners: A contrast in design, purpose, and ethos
High Speed Rail, aka HSR. Japan has had it since 1964. France since 1981. Italy since 1978. China since 2007. The half-century old...
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How do you destroy a railroad?
The list of complaints against CSX and E. Hunter Harrison since the latter undertook to redesign CSX’s operating plan and turn CSX into a...
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The need for passenger rail—who gets it and who doesn’t?
There has been a strong contingent of conservative thinkers in America who, even before the beginning of Amtrak, have rejected passenger...
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What's the value in railroad history?
In an era when many corporations, particularly those dealing with consumer goods, are either shedding their historic images or...
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What's holding the track together?
Among all the things that are going on in railroading, some of them political, some safety-related, some very, very business oriented, we...