Category Archives: Freight

Followup on the Providence Regional Rail Shuttle

Posted on 2012/06/13 by

Peter Brassard’s proposal for a very frequent-stop mainline train in Rhode Island received comments both here and on Greater City, dealing with issues from rolling stock to station choice to scheduling. Some are fairly trivial, some aren’t. The upshot is … Continue reading →

Posted in Freight, Providence, Regional Rail, Transportation | 9 Comments

The Cost of Heavy Freight Trains

Posted on 2012/05/06 by

Over at Pennsylvania HSR, Samuel Walker reminds us that the dominance of coal for US freight traffic slows down passenger trains, and this has a social cost in addition to the direct costs of coal mining and burning. But another … Continue reading →

Posted in Environmental Issues, Freight, High-Speed Rail, Politics and Society, Regional Rail, Transportation | 83 Comments

Quick Note on Food Transportation

Posted on 2011/07/20 by

It’s a commonplace among some environmentalists that an oil- or carbon-constrained world is one where it’s prohibitively expensive to ship food long distances, and therefore people should eat local. For example, James Kunstler argues that cities will shrink and people … Continue reading →

Posted in Freight, Transportation | 59 Comments

New York-Area Track Maps

Posted on 2011/05/23 by

The original purpose of this blog was to give me a domain name to upload things related to transit. The resource I was uploading was track maps of the New York area due to Rich E Green, whose site unexpectedly … Continue reading →

Posted in Freight, New York, Regional Rail, Transportation | 12 Comments