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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
