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Draw Your Own Conclusions
Amtrak today, February 1, 2016, released documents (including onboard video) related to the deadly crash of Amtrak 188 in May 2015. ...
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...
Resisting The "Voices"
Now that railroading has gotten its extension of the congressional mandate for installation of Positive Train Control (PTC), I am hearing...
Another Conrail In Our Future?
Yeah, I know. Conrail still exists in the form of the shared assets set aside when Norfolk Southern (NS) and CSX bought the original. As...
A New Year For Railroads
Happy New Year to all the readers of this blog. PTC has been delayed. Passenger traffic is so-so. Rail shipments are down across the...
Just How Does That Work?
Let's start with Amtrak. Amtrak doesn't particularly want to shut down, but the freight railroads are threatening to refuse track to...
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...
Throwing The Baby Off The Train
Just as you wouldn't literally throw a baby off a train, moving or otherwise, you probably wouldn't discard a protocol for passenger...
Train Wrecks and Misinformation
I am a long-time rail fan, an amateur rail historian, and a student of railroading. Not that such a statement qualifies me to be much...
Hail To The (Southwest) Chief
An Op Ed published by Philip Davis today in the Albuquerque Journal reminded me that I haven't commented on Amtrak's decision to leave...
