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tracksidetreasure.blogspot.com | ||
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beachburg.blogspot.com
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| | | | | Thoughts and musings about a lifelong fascination with railways | |
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freakonomics.com
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| | | | | Amtrak's ridership and revenue has been steadily increasing over the last 10 years, and 2011 set a new ridership record with 30.2 million passengers, and $1.9 billion in ticket revenue. But, even though it took in $1.42 billion from Congress last year, it still manages to lose $1 billion annually. This is hardly a new development. Amtrak has a long and storied history of functioning at a loss despite government subsidies.So, as we enter what appears to be a new era (maybe?) of government austerity, it se... | |
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pedestrianobservations.com
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| | | | | The American conversation about high-speed rail has an internal debate that greatly bothers me, about whether investments should be incremental or not. An interview with the author of a new book about the Northeast Corridor reminded me of this; this is not the focus of the interview, but there was an invocation of incremental vs.... | |
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www.rural-revolution.com
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| | | Today was the fall equinox, when sunrise and sunset are at the same time and day and night are equal. I happened to catch the sunrise... ... | ||
