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Railroad concerns just popping up all over
Nothing big this week, but there are little things popping up that deserve mention on these blog pages. While the Surface Transportation...
Whither the railroads in 2017?
It’s not all gloom and doom for the railroads in 2017. Whether you come at it from the point of view of a railfan, or from the point of...
Nationalize the railroads? A "what if."
On December 26, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential order that effectively seized the railroads for the U.S. government....
Happy Thanksgiving
Just a short post this week to wish every one of the readers of this blog a Happy Thanksgiving. Those of us who are interested--some say...
You (may) get what you pay for
Maybe the photographs just don’t do it justice. Maybe the photographers didn’t know how to highlight the spectacular architecture. ...
Train of thought
I spend so much time discussing and reporting on railroad issues around the country that I seldom stop to consider what railroad needs...
Believe it or don’t
I think the famous, late comic genius Steve Allen coined this satiric take on the equally famously titled funny papers strip by Ripley. ...
Trains and autonomous vehicles
My son, Robin, gave me the idea for this blog post, suggesting on Facebook that he enjoyed hearing about PTC (Positive Train Control) and...
Accident wins the week for blog space
Today’s blog was supposed to be about railroad rates and their arcane history. After the Thursday morning accident in which a New Jersey...
When consistency isn’t a hobgoblin
We’ve all heard the corrupted version of the Ralph Waldo Emerson quotation: Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. I left out...
