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To dump or not to dump
Every day it seems more and more like the Amtrak board of directors and upper management simply do not want to run long-distance...
And then there were six; and on BNSF there will be four
Six is the remaining number of passenger railroads that may not qualify for a Positive Train Control (PTC) extension under current...
How can a railroad cause a flood?
The answer is, it can't. But that's what the media and city officials of Lumberton, NC, are saying, and they're pointing the proverbial...
What is 'viable?'
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported today that the Minnesota Department of Transportation has studied the possibility of a second...
Union Pacific and Precision Scheduled Railroading
Union Pacific (UP) has announced that it will implement its own version of Precision Scheduled Railroading. To keep this short, I'll...
First you say you won't and then you will
I can't figure out whether Amtrak is trying to emulate the late, great Hunter Harrison in terms of its caprice, or simply imitating the...
A shift in direction
This has been a vanity blog from the start. Those of you who do read it regularly know that I haven't posted now for over a month. If...
Railfan dreaming
I’ve leaned on Amtrak and reported on developments in freight rail, explained railroad technology, and generally discussed a wide range...
Part 2: Infrastructure improvement: Painless? Or just a pain.
The absolute wrong way to make infrastructure improvements, in my opinion, is for a state or municipal agency to either tax its...
Do we really need government to improve public infrastructure? Part 1
There’s an intriguing article posted May 8, 2018, on the Forbes website where authors Jerome Jean Haegeli and Vangelis Papakonstantinou...
