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From all the way west, I recognize some similarities with family-controlled and/or otherwise independents. I was the last dispatcher for the Gray Line of Portland and luckily was hired away by a customer before it was absorbed by allies of Norman Kneisel (former Portland Trailways agent who...

Although the Soo, like the Chicago Great Western and the Rock Island. went between Chicago and the Twin Cities, its main value was for service to small cities along the way. For example, the rotogravure supplement that we carried in our high school paper was shipped from Waukesha on the Soo...

In 1967, when I made my big trip "back East" from Portland to Chicago and St. Louis, I got off the North Coast Limited in Minneapolis and caught the Morning Zephyr to Chicago. In the annual Speed Survey, it was the fastest train in the U.S. When we hit the triple-digit segment, the ice water...

In the digital age style, Megabus now says that it is still operating, but doesn't say where. Its claim of serving 500 cities includes independent carriers in their on-line booking system. As railiner observed, the independents are out there just carrying on their family businesses...

Right. And here's an answer that is purely a wish. "State-supported intercity bus services, like Virginia Breeze and Bustang in Colorado, are growing. How does Flix work with those services? State-level support is really a critical resource as well as an opportunity for the sector. For all...

Burlington Trailways already was in the market. They run from Denver to Chicago and Indianapolis, with branches in between. Here's the latest.

Yes.

International Railway Journal reports that test trains are running and reconfirms the September 2nd date for use of the west bore.. https://www.railjournal.com/infrastructure/first-trains-return-to-gotthard-base-tunnel-western-bore/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=47591

You're right, but I will put in a correction. The Milwaukee Road electrification was in two parts: Tacoma to Othello, WA and Avery, ID to Harlowton, MT. The Little Joes were mainly used on the eastern segment. In the 1920's the Soviet government was afflicted with Americanomania and one...

As best as I can tell, the recently destroyed bridges are highway bridges. The rail disruption is caused by: the Ukrainians are sitting on the rail line centered in Sudzha. civilian evacuations -- for which there was no plan. troop movements -- which include third-class units that likely are...

I have a book by a mid-level Reichsbahn manager that shows the friendship ceremony when the Soviet Army returned the electrification equipment.

Here are some more scenes from the bus bridge (which sounds better than bustitution). The photos above were at Grunau. The photos below were at Adlershof, the other end of the bus ride. The time lost was 20 minutes.

In September 2016 a BNSF freight went on the ground between Pasco and Spokane. I was on Train 28, which was stopped after we had departed Pasco. We backed to Pasco and then rode around the yard as our section was turned. After a further wait, buses arrived with Train 27's passengers and they...

They used statistical area populations.

It might be foot-dragging by the airport management. That was long the case in Denver until some people retired or moved on.

More detail about the difficulties created by the incursion in the Kursk Oblast. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukrainian-incursion-into-kursk-paralyses-russia-s-railways/ar-AA1p1m6b?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDGEESS&cvid=cd669e5edca84f37a19b188145651394&ei=32

The line definitely was built as single track, and then the second track was added. It was single track for WW1, with infrequent sidings. That's part of the story of the U.S. Railroad Service (mostly GN) sent to help them with wartime traffic. The line was double-track by the early 1960's.

They only listed the top 10 in each population group and La Junta (and Lamar and Trinidad) are close enough to Pueblo to put them down somewhere below 10th.

In 2018, the Washington Post ran an article about their application of an Oxford university formula for defining places as remote (from 75,000+ population central cities likely to offer services). The table showing the Post results omitted one factor that readers here may be aware of: Amtrak...

In 2014 I enjoyed goulash soup for lunch in a Hungarian diner on the Berlin to Vienna trip that I made. The diner was running Berlin to Budapest; we had a change of trains in Czechia to catch a Warsaw to Vienna train that ran late. On that occasion, the railways were not quite seamless, as the...