Yesterday I came across this wonderful little informal essay on Facebook, but I screwed up by not getting the writer’s name and therefore cannot give credit. Furthermore, I may be...
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...
Well, this is interesting: The Federal Railroad Administration has published the ground rules for anyone who wants to submit a bid for operating passenger trains on as many as three...
On one of my first long-distance trips—I think it was the Zephyr—my wife and I were sitting in our bedroom shortly after leaving Chicago when a 40ish man, impeccably dressed...