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Good Hits or Bad Hits? The Determination is Ours

ASLRRA PERSPECTIOVE, RAILWAY AGE JUNE 2023 ISSUE: “And the hits just keep on coming” was a phrase popularized by 1960s radio announcers to boast that their radio station was going to play one beloved record after another. The 1992 movie “A Few Good Men” popularized a wholly different meaning of the same phrase when Tom Cruise (Lt. Daniel Kaffee) who, at the end of a litany of contentious disagreements with his unwanted co-counsel Demi Moore (Lt. Cmdr. Joanne Galloway), utters those words in a sarcastic response to her assertion that, like it or not, she is coming to Cuba with him for his meeting with Jack Nicholson (Colonel Nathan Jessup).

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A Tourist Railroad and a Canal Segment Provide a Glimpse Into Indiana History

We normally don’t write about “tourist railroads” here at Railway Age; in part because many are isolated and not accessible by any other form of non-automobile transportation. Yet there is an exception in southeastern Indiana, about half-way between Cincinnati and Indianapolis. It’s even accessible on Amtrak, at least for hearty travelers who are willing to put up with Amtrak’s schedule.

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Zero/Low-Emission Locomotive Global Roundup (Updated)

By 2050, in accordance with the Paris Climate Agreement, zero-emission locomotives may have completely replaced conventional diesel-powered equipment on the railways of the world. Current development of zero-emission switcher locomotives, combined with

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CPKC: New Railroad, New Livery

Locomotives are the public face of a railroad. The most attractive liveries reflect not only a company’s heritage, but the communities it serves. It is a symbol of pride. In some cases, it symbolizes a connection with a nation.

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FTA Rejects MBTA Safety Improvement Plan

Whether actual or fictitious, Bostonians have had problems with their transit, and it appears those will continue, at least for a while longer. The Federal Transit Administration has ordered the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) to revise a safety plan, this time for track workers, which will further delay the repairs that will be needed to return service to normal.

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