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Rail corridor planning 101 will tell you that connecting cities which exist along a line is really good. Cheyenne and Pueblo demarcate the north and south ends of a rel.

At its peak, the elevated line to Park Row was a hell of an operation. It ran *sixty four* trains per hour at peak, a throughput unheard of pretty much

One environmental justice issue I've been thinking about a lot lately is the impacts dams have had on native communities. The Missouri River is an excellent example. In the '40s,

I need more sourcing that isn't "stuff I've read on forums" and the like to actually write about this, but I think there's a really good thread/blog post/etc to be

I've decided I'm going to drive from Seattle to NYC on Google Streetview. Have been considering this since quarantine began, but am now finally biting the bullet. Trying to get

I really don't think there's much realism in any vision for the next few years of transit in the NYC central business district that doesn't involve a massive and coordinated

The decline in rail auto parts traffic is such an interesting story of changing industrial geographies and management philosophieshttps://twitter.com/blessedtrains/status/1265824901706940420 In the days when auto production was dispersed/do

Folks, it's time to talk about Nostrand Junction's evil cousin: 149 St. This will be a long thread. When one looks at a chart comparing peak hour 4 and 5

So there's an argument to be made for investments in reshoring as a way to build industrial resiliency and institutional knowledge (this article by @danwwang, for example: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-07/why-american-manufac

Just imagine how much money and time the MTA/Amtrak could have saved if, instead of rebuilding HAROLD interlocking into this overly flexible...thing, they had come up with a simplified operating

They definitely were! The American steel industry invested maybe 1/3 of what the Japanese did in steel R&D through the 60s and 70s, were among the last producers to adopt

NJT schedules are ridiculously complicated. On most lines, there's only about 2 trips for each distinct stopping pattern -- a level of rider-unfriendly complexity that sits atop the system's complete