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American Railroads and Carbon Footprints
For going on two centuries, the railroads of America have relied almost exclusively on fuels that, when burned, release forms of carbon...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...