Election day, Tuesday, November 6, 2012 is exactly a year – 365 days – away (Presidential election years are always leap years, with February having 29 days; hence a full year from November 7, 2011.). If you think all things are political now, well, you haven’t seen anything, yet.
There is a nice man in New Orleans by the name of John Sita, Jr. who follows in his father’s honorable footsteps in his admiration for passenger trains. Mr. Sita, Jr. does something wonderful for many of us by sharing his passion for passenger train photography and compiling the best of current and historic passenger train photos and then providing them to us daily. He puts a lot of time and energy into what he does, and it shows. Many of us are thankful to him for his efforts. He seeks no compensation or praise, but has the satisfaction of a job well done.
It’s getting really interesting; a worthwhile, guaranteed-to-be-fascinating ideological battle is brewing in South Florida, and it has nothing to do with hurricane season.
Volume 1, Number 14
“Vice President – Passenger Services” is a title which may be returning to the corporate roster at Florida East Coast Railway. Yet another major railroad is more than flirting with the idea of operating passenger trains; this time, South Florida commuter services for Tri-Rail between West Palm Beach and Miami, and possibly northward along the Florida coast above West Palm Beach.
Volume 1, Number 13
There are about a dozen projects in the pipeline for private passenger rail in the United States, and the first one is out of the planning stages and into actual operation.
Hot off the Internet presses, the latest from Gil Carmichael, undoubtedly the wisest man in the railroad world today. Read more…
Volume 1, Number 11
When is a passenger train like a jet airplane? Read more…
Not a moment too soon, here’s the latest press release from United States House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman John Mica of Florida. Read more…
