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Long Island Rail Road derailment underscores decay of New York’s transportation infrastructure

Report: Lower-income New Yorkers suffer the greatest mass transit hardships

New report exposes unsafe working conditions at Long Island Rail Road

CSX continues cuts, botches relocation of train dispatchers

Why aren’t trains evacuating people from the path of Hurricane Irma?

Railroads push cost-cutting and contract concessions

CSX railroad closes and downgrades major facilities

Railroad workers at CSX face the dictates of Wall Street

Governor declares “state of emergency” for New York City transit system

“Slash and burn” CEO takes helm at CSX Railroad

https://www.facebook.com/publiccitizentx/videos/249371459101631/ Discussion on electrifying the Port of Houston freight transfer system to  improve efficiency and reduce pollution.

Rail News - STB wants regular updates from UP as it phases in scheduled railroading. For Railroad Career Professionals : Railroad industry news about: Surface Transportation Board, STB, Union Pacific Railroad, UP, Lance Fritz, precision scheduled railroading, Unified Plan 2020, STB Chairwoman Ann Begeman, Vice Chairwoman Deb Miller, CSX. From the editors of Progressive Railroading Magazine

https://youtu.be/vW5w6shC4Ak Here's a group, Solutionary Rail, at http://www.solutionaryrail.org in Washington state that's working towards the same ideal that we are.  This is a link on YouTube is an extended interview which includes their four minute video.

Why I'm in Business So what do you think I'm in business for, my health? Actually, yes.  I'm in business for my health.  I'm trying to stay alive and help everyone stay alive and help everyone be healthy.  I'm in the business of working with everyone to save ourselves and our planet. The 1999 stage play, and 2013 movie, Charlie Victor Romeo, reenacts almost verbatim the cockpit recordings of six air fatalities or survivor incidents. At no time does the crew simply throw up their hands and give up.  They fight to solve their problems to the end, whether they succeed or die.

The Corporate Deathwish of American Railroads The Class I railroads, the biggest, baddest dogs in the junkyard, don't care if passengers are inconvenienced.  They don't care that fewer businesses are served.  They don't care that their industry is shrinking. The American railroad industry has a corporate deathwish.  I wouldn't mind so much if they were only offing their evil selves.  Unfortunately, they're taking the rest of us humans down with them.  Burn down the planet so long as they make a short term profit. Their core problem is that they only look like they're profitable.  Running a railroad efficiently and effectively doesn't make a profit.  They make money hand over fist by holding monopoly on a territory and keeping others out.  They also make money through corporate stocks, bonds, and tax subsidies, and more. How Did Those Soulless Corporations Drag Us Straight to Hell? No brand new, never before seen railroads have been allow...

At the very beginning of my research I noticed that the railroad men were a rather onerie bunch.  .  The nicest people in the industry have been lawyers.  I also found out that they have no interest in making sales, getting more money for the industry as a whole or their own companies, specifically. American railroads are an industry with a deathwish.  I verbally imagined ways to address the extensive list of safety and velocity improvements mentioned in the 2016 Railroad Plan for Texas.  No interest.  They tried to divert my attention from that list by claiming that they invest billions of dollars in their roads and they make considerable profit doing it.  The list of safety concerns in the Plan doesn't have anything to do with direct return on investment.  Retirees from the railroad industry told me that making money in railroads means keeping expenses down and/or cutting costs.  So from the people with the most experience, th...