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"Tearing up the tracks" - Medium's Essays on Train Travel (Dec '16) https://medium.com/browse/416e712240c7 (Chaz comments: The "tearing up" here is not 'tearing out the tracks" but more like a train tearing down/up the line) 1.) Ulaanbaatar Mongollia 2005 2.) "The Other Side of the Tracks...

A good explanation of why passenger rail in the U.S.A does not ciompare with European trains.. (YouTube via Boing Boing. "This video explains why U.S. trains are slow, unreliable, expensive, and don't go where people want them to go, and why the situation is not likely to improve. Interesting...

Article on Penn Station's ClubAcela Lounge (from AtlasObscura.com) June 30 " There’s a Secret VIP Club in Penn Station Its online reviews are terrible, so we went to investigate." http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/theres-a-secret-vip-club-in-penn-station "...To be honest, I’m not...

June 5 '16 The Guardian Success of Newly Reopened UK Rail Lines vs High Speed Rail http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/05/hs2-railways-reopened-lines-britain-rail

(Passenger Rail U.K. Mar 30 Guardian) Modern rail travel is a slow-grinding nightmare of too many people and too little space http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/30/modern-rail-travel-nightmare-too-many-people-too-little-space-stuart-heritage Excerpt: "This is what modern rail...

The Strange History Of NYC's Mighty Hell Gate Gothamist http://gothamist.com/2016/02/22/hell_gate_history_nyc.php Back in the early 80's an Amtrak conductor warned me that if the train ever stopped on the (then decrepit) bridge...don't step off for fear of falling thru!

Greyhound Driver Stops Denver bound bus at Motel in Salina Kansas To Rest... With Bus Full Of Passengers! Tuesday aft The driver allegedly said nothing.. A passenger finally kept motor going for heat...

Taking the Empire Builder train across America (The Guardian Travel Dec 20) http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/dec/20/train-across-america-empire-builder-line?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H&utm_term=145077&subid=17496803&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

Amtrak stalled in a Hudson tunnel this morning. I haven't seen any post about it here. But most interesting to me is this pic of the (Jersey) approach. Never seen it before http://gothamist.com/2015/12/16/stalled_train_causing_heavy_delays.php Chaz Tried to post the tunnel pic jpg as a...

BBC Radio 4 has a welll done 70 minute program on the history of British rail. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06rdcvz Omnibus. An account of Britain's railways, and how track and carriage united a nation. Read by Stephen Tompkinson. Avail/ for just under a month (Also on Book of the Week...

70 Years of Trains & 15 of Classic Trains DVD's from Kalmbach Trainorders has a new thread (posted on both W & W sub-forums so with different sets of responses) asking whether the 70 year Trains DVD is worth it. E thread http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?2,3880740 W thread...

C-Span 3 recently re-aired 2 rail history shows 1.) Book Discussion on Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America Richard White presented a history of the operation of the transcontinental railroads.  From June 20 but taped in 2011 -- he focuses not on the building of...