CP+NS Is Over... Maybe
On Monday of last week, Canadian Pacific (CP) ended its effort to take over Norfolk Southern. If you are a regular reader of this blog,...
More Railroad Relevance
(continued from last week's blog about the relevance of railroads today) Now let’s move on to economic relevance. Here the railroads...
Everything Old (New) is New (Old) Again
Yeah, I’m confused too. Let’s start with CRANDIC. To the uninitiated, that’s Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, a railroad that’s been around...
Transportation And Making Money
Let’s start this blog post with a definition or two, beginning with “transportation.” In the railroad context—hope you didn’t think I’d...
PTC: Life or Death?
I haven't devoted much verbiage to Positive Train Control (PTC) lately. One reason is that I never thought we'd get this close to the...
Pushing The Envelope
The Association of American Railroads reported carload traffic in February 2015 totaled 1,089,211 carloads, down 1.1 percent or 11,726...