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Bits and pieces and looking back
Railroading and passenger railroading in America are modern, vital, and expanding industries that generate their shares of the news every...
Infrastructure finance authority and Great Lakes Basin RR...again.
I have published several posts on the subject of the Great Lakes Basin Railroad (GLB), so, before I get into today’s subject, I want to...
What is California High-Speed Rail?
Those of us who do not live or work in the Golden State have, for a long time, heard reports of the construction of a high-speed railroad...
Great Lakes Basin filed with STB May 1 – and wants to build a tollway!
We’ve talked about the Great Lakes Basin Railroad (GLB) before. It’s the approximately 275-mile railroad proposed by its backers for a...
Budget cuts, safety, and state of good repair
Much has been made by the media of a supposed connection between budget cuts to public transportation entities (Amtrak, commuter...
One Penn Station solution or albatross?
With maintenance problems causing serious delay and inconvenience to New York City commuters since the first of the year, it has been...
Pets on a train
Pets on a train, manners, morals, and ethics. Which of these things is not like the other? That’s a “gotcha” question. In fact, they are...
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...
