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As a Rail Evangelist for Solutionary Rail, a supporter of the Climate Rail Alliance, a member of the Empire State Passengers Association (ESPA), and a member of the Rail Passengers Association (RPA), I try to keep an eye on what’s happening with...
by xaxnar
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on Mon May 06, 2024 at 04:52 AM PDT
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Trains, at one time in this country, were the premier way to travel. But, unfortunately, that is no longer the case. The name and number trains of yesteryear have been somewhat supplanted by automobiles that go by model name and number. That’s really...
by Alan Kandel
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on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 08:44 AM PDT
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President Joe Biden has made it a priority to improve and expand the National Rail Passenger Corporation, better known as Amtrak. What is a problem for many people is that Amtrak does not show a profit, except for particular routes. There are repeated...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 11:23 AM PDT
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The Climate Rail Alliance and Solutionary Rail have been trying to get the word out that Washington State DOT has gone off the rails with regards to what the state could be doing to take cars off the roads and cut emissions with better rail service....
by xaxnar
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on Sat Apr 13, 2024 at 10:27 AM PDT
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:35 AM PDT
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If you want to see better, more frequent train service by Amtrak, speak up now! The Federal Railway Administration is preparing a study and they want input by March 8. Here’s the bulletin from Railroad Workers United. This isn’t just about adding new...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 11:24 AM PST
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It’s been a while since I’ve done a story about the updates that the Rail Passengers Association has been emailing, but this one looks important. Arizona Department of Transportation Taken Hostage Arizona State Senator [A.S.S.] Jake Hoffman has taken...
by Proginoskes
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 06:35 PM PST
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Scripps News has been following events at East Palestine with multiple reports ever since the catastrophic train wreck a year ago on February 3, 2023. (The list of reports at the link really cover the story in depth.) They have a followup report here...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 11:41 AM PST
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April 8, 2024 is going to see a total eclipse of the sun across North America. All 48 states will get a partial view, but a total eclipse will be visible for those people who can make their way to the track shown on this map from NASA. The path will...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 09:09 AM PST
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On September 27th, 1981, the first ever French TGV with passengers left Gare de Lyon in Paris on the way to the city of Lyon, reaching speeds of up to 260 kilometers per hour on its 400-kilometer journey. It marked a new era of train travel and train...
by Neon Neo
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on Sat Jan 20, 2024 at 08:40 PM PST
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In what is a breaking story, David Sirota from The Lever appeared on Democracy Now on January 9 to report to Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez that the major subcontractor building 737 MAX bodies for Boeing was facing whistleblower complaints and...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Jan 10, 2024 at 08:15 PM PST
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UPDATE 12-19-2023 3:30 pm ET: I just heard from a contact at Solutionary Rail who is also working on this. According to their information, what happens with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is going to be critical: WSDOT will be meeting with...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Dec 19, 2023 at 09:27 AM PST
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It was a gloriously awful night for Republicans nationally and in the House of Representatives. While Democrats were racking up election wins across the country and in positions from school boards ...
by Joan McCarter
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on Wed Nov 08, 2023 at 09:21 AM PST
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President Joe Biden, arguably the � nation's biggest Amtrak fan , visited a train maintenance shop in his home state of Delaware on Monday to showcase more than $16 billion in federal investments ...
by Associated Press
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on Mon Nov 06, 2023 at 02:54 PM PST
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Here’s another Biden/Harris win about which you probably haven’t heard much...as reported in the latest issue of Progressive Railroading: The Federal Railroad Administration last month announced 70 winners of $1.4 billion in fiscal-year 2022...
by wesmorgan1
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on Fri Nov 03, 2023 at 12:25 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by side pocket
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on Sun Oct 08, 2023 at 08:59 PM PDT
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The UK’s largest infrastructure project in the UK at the moment is phase 1 of the construction of “High Speed 2” or just “HS2”. Some of the experience and financial aspects should be informative about proposals for high speed rail projects in the US....
by Lib Dem FoP
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on Tue Sep 26, 2023 at 03:38 AM PDT
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There’s a webinar coming up for later today that should be of interest to many. If you want a sustainable planet, if you want environmental justice, if you want to get off fossil fuels, if you want an economy that rewards workers, if you want to see...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Sep 12, 2023 at 12:03 PM PDT
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Best seat in the house —�a Boeing 717 cockpit seen while boarding.
Here’s an observation about the way the airlines load people onto planes that came up�while ...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Jul 28, 2023 at 10:18 AM PDT
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From SMART � the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers:
While Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) dollars are being allocated by the U.S. ...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Jul 25, 2023 at 01:24 PM PDT
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