I’ve often said that grade-crossing accidents are all avoidable—every damn one of them! There was another one the other day and it was a bad one. A lot of people...

It’s awfully easy to grumble when services we take for granted are interrupted. For instance, once in a while – and I have no idea why – there is no...

After much prodding of state, local and federal governments – and Amtrak, too – rail service between Boston and Portland, Maine, was begun in 2001. Since then, ridership on the...