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Why High-Speed Rail is Headache-Inducing

FINANCIAL EDGE, RAILWAY AGE MAY 2025 ISSUE: Who doesn’t need a break from government these days? If the tariff instigated stock market rollercoaster isn’t nightmarish enough, the $200 million ad campaign of

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Building Beneficial Bridges

FROM THE EDITOR, RAILWAY AGE MAY 2025 ISSUE: Frank N. Wilner, in his May “Watching Washington” column, talks about “bridges of understanding” that could “be built between discordant rail labor and rail

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Building Bridges of Understanding

WATCHING WASHINGTON, RAILWAY AGE MAY 2025 ISSUE: The Ethical Culture Fieldston School and University Heights High School, both in the Bronx, N.Y., are but minutes apart by public transit, yet otherwise at

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Vive L’Alberta Libre?

Just days after Quebec voters chose that their province should remain part of Canada by a very narrow 54,000-vote margin in 1995, Canadian Pacific Railway announced it would move its head office

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Trip Report: Amtrak Floridian Gets a D+

Effective Nov.10, 2024, Amtrak eliminated the Capitol Limited between Chicago and Washington, DC, as well as the Silver Star between New York and Miami. Direct service between the Northeast Corridor north of

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Finally, Some Good News

As the flooding effects in Tennessee and Kentucky dissipated, CSX was able to get the network moving in the right direction in the week ending April 18. Average train speed, which had