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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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