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HSR and Streamliners: A contrast in design, purpose, and ethos
High Speed Rail, aka HSR. Japan has had it since 1964. France since 1981. Italy since 1978. China since 2007. The half-century old...
How do you destroy a railroad?
The list of complaints against CSX and E. Hunter Harrison since the latter undertook to redesign CSX’s operating plan and turn CSX into a...
The need for passenger rail—who gets it and who doesn’t?
There has been a strong contingent of conservative thinkers in America who, even before the beginning of Amtrak, have rejected passenger...
What's the value in railroad history?
In an era when many corporations, particularly those dealing with consumer goods, are either shedding their historic images or...
What's holding the track together?
Among all the things that are going on in railroading, some of them political, some safety-related, some very, very business oriented, we...
Airline seating for Amtrak?
That’s exactly what I said; and, in my sometimes-humble opinion, that’s just not what Amtrak needs. But that’s exactly what lame-duck...
Is passenger transportation bad business?
Don Phillips is a transportation reporter, and a damn good one. For a good part of his forty-year career, he has written a column for...
Congestion, population growth, and safety
Today, I'd like to take a look at a possible alternate way to view the frequency of railroad accidents. I don’t want to fill the first...
And then there were two – Amtrak appoints Richard Anderson
I had high hopes for Wick Moorman, but Mr. Moorman didn’t really want to be CEO of Amtrak. I suppose that now, not even a year into his...
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...
