trains

I got the bottom bunk on the sleepy choochoo.

It’s shot with an old compact camera from 2010 in low light conditions, so I hope that explains the potato quality. It’s crazy how much better my phone’s camera is (and it’s not even a fancy expensive phone). Still, I’m going to continue using my old camera, I’m a sucker for old tech.

The big buzz and bigger controversy around Texas during the past several years has been a proposal by a company called Texas Central to build and operate a high-speed rail line between Downtown Dallas and a point in the Houston area, about eight miles from downtown Houston where two highways intersect, a great spot for a parking...

The reason we stay in school, pursue advanced degrees, merge and acquire competitors is to increase market power. The former two are celebrated by society, the latter two often derided negatively as anticompetitive and made subject to regulatory and judicial punishment.

Although US coal consumption has fallen dramatically since 2005, the country still consumes millions of tons a year, and exports tons more—much of it transported by train. Now, new research shows that these trains can affect the health of people living near where they pass....

:) Another angle of the locomotive.

On Tuesday, the Culture and Tourism and Commerce ministries, along with China State Railway Group Co., issued a guideline action plan to launch trains specifically designed for retiree tourists. A nationwide “silver tourist train” network featuring “diversified tourist routes, a wide range of tourism themes and...