by Matt Melzer   Twenty-one small towns may soon lose all air service under the Essential Air Service (EAS) program due to underperformance. Critics of passenger train subsidies inevitably point...

As many of you know, I serve on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Railroad Passengers—now known simply as the Rail Passengers Association. RPA is a non-profit...

  New Locomotives   The Amtrak Cascades, which operate in the busy 310-mile long corridor from Vancouver, BC to Eugene, Oregon, by way of Seattle and Portland, have just taken...

If you were to stop a hundred people on the street and ask them who owns the tracks used by Amtrak’s long-distance trains, I’d guess that probably a third would...

Who’d have thought that the federal government—specifically the Surface Transportation Board—would publicly poke a finger in the eye of one of the Class I railroads?   Who’d have thought that...

Some months ago, CSX found itself with a new boss when Hunter Harrison became President and CEO of the railroad. Shortly after assuming control, in a performance worthy of Gordon...

In Washington, the Trump Administration has pretty much adopted the budget recommendations of the Heritage Foundation, one of the libertarian “think tanks” supported by the Koch brothers. As far as...

ST. PAUL, MN-The two-day retreat for the NARP board of directors has just concluded, leaving me in a kind of never-never land. I checked out of my hotel room at...

In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina hammered the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1800 people and causing $108 billion in damage. Included in that mess were many miles of track...

Over the past few days, I’ve been brooding over the Trump regime’s efforts to eliminate Amtrak’s long-distance service. And that led me to wonder what it is about the American...