PTC Deadline Could Stop All Trains.
Oh, please! Not another crisis! Well, probably not, but the potential is there for an end, albeit temporary, to a lot of passenger rail service in the country. It all goes back to 2008 and a suburb...
View ArticleMurdoch’s WSJ Doesn’t Like PTC.
It may simply be my instinct to look for ulterior motives whenever Rupert Murdoch’s fingers touch anything, but I do believe the venerable Wall Street Journal has slid farther to the right since...
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Where’s Uncle Walter When We Really Need Him?
I dunno. I get terribly discouraged at the current state of journalism in this country. I haven’t seen any numbers, but I’ll bet a six-pack that journalism schools around the country are having serious...
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Why the Southwest Chief Derailed.
“You can’t fix stupid.” Ron White, comedian It seems pretty clear that the cause of the Southwest Chief accident a few nights ago was just plain old-fashioned stupidity. The Chief was heading east...
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Congress: “Do It … But On Your Dime.”
Several years ago, following a deadly collision in California, Congress directed the nation’s railroads to install a safety system known as PTC (Positive Train Control). It uses global positioning and...
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