When it comes to choosing sides on any issue, it’s always a good idea to compare arguments, whether it’s health care reform or tax cuts or high-speed rail. Often, when a comparison is made, it becomes clear that there are simply more and/or better arguments supporting one of the points of view … be it…
From time to time, I have written about deaths caused by grade crossing accidents and suicides. Almost 100 percent of the train-car crashes are the result of carelessness and/or stupidity on the part of the driver involved. And suicides? Well, there’s nothing careless about someone who is fed up with life and thinks the answer…
After four nights in Boston – and three games between the Red Sox and the Oakland A’s at Fenway Park – I hopped an Amtrak train at Boston’s Back Bay station, headed for Baltimore where the Sox would begin a three-game series that same night with the Orioles. The fare for one of the high-speed…
Some interesting ideas were recently presented by Hunter Harrison, president and CEO of Canadian National Railway, who laid out his view of the future of freight rail in a speech to the Canada Maritime Conference. First of all, Harrison predicts that multiple mergers will create two mega railroads in place of today’s “Big Six”: Union…