RAILWAYIST

You just have to get your hands on this book... Christian Wolmar did it again --- as the world's best booster for railways and he gave the USA lots of credit for its rightful and vital place in railroad history. Here is the info on the book...

MULTI-BILLION dollar parking garages with special-air-service & short-haul buses that will shuttle arriving & departing passengers 'only' to on-site/off-site car rental locations. Lots of 'motels-not-hotels' clustered arount...

The aerial shots above the Columbia River in Washington and the narrations by the Locomotive builders/craftspeople are really awesome! The BNSF paint jobs are really striking as the trains move through the Columbia River Basin scenery.

In the upscale City of Birmingham, Michigan, you can take a stroll on Old Woodward and gaze into the GSTV- Gas Station TV Media Centre HQ - where you can watch 36 TV screens mounted on the wall continuously running auto-centric brainwashing crap 24 hours...

I'll bet my last silver dollar that a mile long train powered by a mid-century coal-powered Berkshire Steam Locomotive hauling Pullmans or mixed-freight-daily would be far more efficient machine than a 747 dreamliner loaded with the latest avionics...

"The film tells the true story of Eric Lomax, a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Corp of Signals, who was captured by Japanese forces in World War II and sent to a prison camp in Thailand". "Nicole Kidman is to play Colin Firth's wife...

To help his subjects and ease 'pain-at-the-pump' in partnership with the Department of Energy, Lord Trump will also supply parachutes along with the 'Lonely Gallon' gas cans for the up coming air drop over a still undisclosed location...

"Crude Realities: Pain & Gain" "Ditch the Car, Take the Train" In Los Angeles, CNBC reporter Jane bought an electronic ticket with her CNBC/Comcast corporate card, mentions that her automobile commute from Moorpark to CNBC...

On CNBC "Squawk on the Street", Lord Donald Trump voiced on TV-- "Saudi Arabia--- you gotta pump us up some mo oil"... "Wind-Mill-Power" is useless cause the world is running out of air!!!" "Those ugly spinning...

In New Orleans there is a cure for 'pain at the pump' : ...Marlon Brando was spotted in one just the other day puffing away on a Lucky Strike... It is painted green--- It runs on steel wheels on iron T-rail--- It goes 'clang'...

Newt Gingrich recently announced that once he is elected President of the USA, he will employ millions of laid off US workers to build a new Moon Base. Here is something that Newt forgot to mention--a High-Speed-Moon-Railway System is included in part...

Great photo of Larry Kaufman under the new 'blogs & more section, as he is carrying on a 'SAT-PHONE' conversation with ERTMS staff.

Troy City Council got a dose of 'rail-ism' and gave a green proceed signal for the TROY TRANSIT CENTRE, despite rabid objections from the: 'auto/truck/roads' entrenched-interests-lobby and its tea-party clique...

CBC NEWS: Keystone pipeline proposal rejected - for now. Why not use this impasse to build a Keystone XL oilsands railway mega-tankcar delivery system, this could spur more North/South railway building throughout both Canada and the USA. The rail could...

"Hell on Wheels is a contemporary Western that centers on former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon, portrayed by Anson Mount, whose quest for vengeance has led him to the UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD'S westward construction of the first transcontinental...

September 28th 2011, Aired at 09:52 EST. Mima Kimes, writer for FORTUNE Magazine was interviewed by C-Span TV Washington Journal call-in program Hostess Greta Wodele Brawner. It lasts about 40 minutes--great TV show! Extra-Extra-read all about...

The massive 13 story Michigan Central Passenger Train Station is undergoing a major facelift. The Detroit International Bridge Company, owner of the Michigan Central Station and the Ambassador Bridge that links Detroit, Michigan with Windsor, Canada...

by author Richard White , winner of a MacArthur Award and the Parkman Prize, is the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University. "A new vision of the Gilded Age, often darkly funny, that shows history to be rooted in failure...

Even though ACELA is not the worlds fastest HSR network---it held its head up proudly as it was compared to flying in the North East corridor. Passengers on the ACELA enjoyed being able to use their cell phones, I-Pods, Blackberries, lap top computers...

According to Ghadaffy Duck , the CATOPEC FOUNDATION and AAA experts, monster-trucks on subsidized highways are 333% more efficient than railroads-just as long as they fill up during their designated OPEC HAPPY HOUR !

The time is right for the United States Mail...to do the same---A U.S. Mail Railway Post Office would save zillions of LINCOLNS on fuel costs for the postal service. Lets try some different names for it: The United States Postal Service RAPID RAIL...

"STREET POLL: High-Speed Rail Over Driving of Flying?" --- out of a total of 1978 votes 54% pro-HSR vs 46% anti-HSR .---express your support to: sots@cnbc.com General Electric/NBC does a lousy job promoting anything rail to the American audience...

is under the influence of OPEC & friends, AAA, Southwest, Delta and other Airlines, National, Hertz and other Car Rental outfits, Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation, The Limbaugh-Beck-Christie-Kasich-Walker Obesity & Auto-Truck Dependency Foundation...

The Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was hosted on the WASHINGTON JOURNAL of Friday 18th February 07:00 call in show. Infrastructure Spending & Job Creation was the subject of the call in show. He was taking call from TV viewers covering...

A.D. 1925, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA "You can not know how much ELECTRIC POWER has brought to modern railway travel until you ride on on the electrified Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul between Chicago and Puget Sound." "Here...