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Another guest post from the extremely thoughtful and knowledgeable BruceMcF, offering a vision for rail transport that would be well worth embracing. On Thursday, djrekluse wrote: Despite considerable tension and even aversion in green communities to the subject, we cannot talk about “going green” without making it a discussion about growth through various hierarchies of […]

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Another guest post from BruceMcF.  Quite simply, rail (and, especially, electrified rail) is one of the more important Silver BBs before us (the U.S.) to deal with the perfect storm of economic, energy, and environmental challenges.  Bruce is a thoughtful, eloquent advocate on rail (and nodal transportation) issues who is well worth paying attention to. […]

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Electrification of rail might be one of the most important single Silver BBs right before us for tackling economic, energy, and environmental challenges. On this, a guest post from the impassioned and thoughtful rail/transport thinker BruceMcF … Having lost sight of our goals we redoubled our efforts    – Mark Twain The Steel Interstate concept is […]

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The French rail system (SNCF) has added a calculator for travel carbon emissions, offering up the ability to compare prices and carbon loads for travel by rail, air, or personal vehicle. L’Ecocomparateur enables one to know how long the trip will take and the consequences: for the pocket and the climate for that trip.  Will […]

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While America’s leaders fiddle around and our rail seems to go down in flames, Europe is strengthening its rail system. Two interrelated items to consider: High-Speed Trains are expanding in Europe and are cutting travel times. European train systems are combining in an alliance program to be better positioned to fight discount airlines. Well, in […]

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