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Be careful what you throw away 3
At one time, just about every passenger rail route in the U.S. with a train that traveled overnight (or over more than one night) had...
Be careful what you throw away 2
Two weeks ago, I looked at a few examples of the gross negligence of throwing away architectural and engineering achievements to favor...
Be careful what you throw away
I’m always amazed by what we throw away, and that doesn’t always mean what we dump into the landfill or smugly recycle. I’m referring,...
‘Build it and they will come’ is not enough
For almost thirty years, we’ve been hearing the phrase, first uttered by a disembodied voice in the movie Field of Dreams, as an excuse...
When rails are better – Part II (or, if it's okay to dislike ugly railroads - see illustrative e
For Part I, please refer to last week’s blog post, below. As reported in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Acting Supreme Court Justice...
When rails are better than trails
As with just about every other subject these days, there are two diametrically opposed schools of thought on what is popularly known as...
What role is there for railroads in evacuations?
When Irma was approaching the Florida Keys and had every intention of battering the entire state of Florida, my son asked me a question. ...
White elephants and New Mexico Rail Runner
The dictionary definition of “white elephant,” besides the obvious, is: A possession that is useless or troublesome, especially one that...
Should Amtrak forget long-distance and concentrate on the Northeast?
Imagine for a moment that you run a service business national in scope. Sales cover only about 80% of your operating costs and you have...
Train stations--why we should have more of them
To understand why I think we should have more train stations, perhaps we should look at what a train station really is. I’m not going to...
