I’ve just read a paper by Randall O’Toole, who works for a prominent “think tank”. Basically, O’Toole says Amtrak would be a profitable enterprise if the federal government was out of the picture and Amtrak could operate as a private company. Frankly, I have run out of patience with these…
Californians are being hornswoggled by a massive misinformation campaign directed against the high-speed rail project proposing to link Los Angeles and the Bay Area. A lot of the opposition comes from uninformed individuals whose argument is pretty much limited to describing the project as a “boondoggle”. As shallow as that is, it’s being repeated often…
Looking sharp! Amtrak has unveiled a new color scheme for their locomotives, reverting to an up-dated version of the red-white-and-blue striping that was used a number of years back. Handsome, isn’t it! I don’t know about you, but I will never stop feeling a thrill when one of those wonderful machines rumbles into a station…