As I have mentioned in earlier posts, recent flooding in many areas of the midwest caused a lot of inconvenience to the freight railroads as well as to Amtrak. On June 16th, because the normal route was under water, the Canadian Pacific rerouted a doublestack* freight train through the tunnel connecting Detroit, Michigan, with Windsor,…
I don’t shop at Wal-Mart. For one thing, they chisel their employees. But here’s another reason. A friend and former client of mine had a product he wanted Wal-Mart to carry in some of their stores. He was summoned to Wal-Mart headquarters in Arkansas and told he would have 10 minutes to make his case….
A high school teacher of mine had been a naval officer before his career in education. He enjoyed mocking the Navy’s slogan back then – “Join the Navy and see the world” – by adding “… through a porthole.”I was reminded of that on the final leg of my recent Around-the-US rail odyssey, the three-hour…
When I was a kid – probably 9 or 10 years old – I conned my folks into buying me a set of earphones that would plug into the radio I had at my bedside. This was back in the days of the 15- and 30-minute radio programs that we listened to faithfully every day…