Alex Wolford
@TheTexanRhino
Cities and Trains Guy, Writing about How People and Stuff Get Around, Dallas TX, Columbia MO
New story out about the little passenger railways that can. medium.com/@TheTexanRhino…
Kleinheinz seems to be going all in on the conservative case for high-speed rail; I would note the praise for Trump and the direct condemnation of California HSR. We will see if it works out for them.
Bullet train investor: Dallas to Houston high-speed rail is shovel-ready | Opinion dallasnews.com/opinion/commen…
So-called "Biblical weather events" are controlled by us Texans, and we choose to make them worse for profit. These disasters are made more severe and deadly by us, and the people who suffer most from them will be far away from Texas; that is the culture that needs to change.
houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editor… via @houstonchron
Local history >>>>> Learn your last five mayors well enough to have opinions on them
History of mathematics/science is often more interesting than general history.
Looks like BNSF doesn’t want to be left out of the continental merger scramble.
Report: Goldman Sachs advising BNSF on potential merger bit.ly/453dUId
Are those catenary wires above the test track?
US evaluation of a captured German 10.5cm leFH 18/40 howitzer carriage performance on rough ground as it is towed around on a test track
Here is a sketch of what a potential Union Pacific (yellow) and Norfolk Southern (black) merger could look like. This is just a sketch, but a hypothetical NS and UP merger would create the first coast-to-coast Class 1 railroad in American history.
It's time to see if the Class 1's and the Surface Transportation Board are ready to greenlight a coast-to-coast railroad.
Exclusive: Union Pacific is in talks to acquire its smaller rival Norfolk Southern in what would be a megamerger in the railroad industry on.wsj.com/3Ukrvpw
My American friends, how did America become such a political cesspool?
My American friends, how did America become such a political cesspool?
brooklyn heights is perhaps the nicest neighborhood in all of america. i wish i could afford it so much
In a Saturday Morning Haze. Chicago, Illinois
The disasters are going to get so, so much worse, and we are never really going to hear from the people who suffer the most.
Please take 15 minutes and read this story, the best you’ll find about the Texas floods. texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
Amtrak’s Wolverine running 110 MPH at Lawton, Michigan. Deadass it was an adrenaline rush seeing a train *that* fast
Train Not Dead
Heartland Flyer gets $3.5M to keep Fort Worth-Oklahoma City route alive for a year fortworthreport.org/2025/07/10/hea…
The board meeting is packed, easily 150+ speakers tonight.
DART Board hearing from public tonite about proposed cuts in service. Before today, 700+ opposed these cuts in writing, so did 720 people in 15 public meetings and 10,800 who participated in a DART-hosted internet call. These many people cannot be wrong.