Based on past performance, will execution on time and within budget actually occur? Or another “bridge too far” expectation? Within four years? Likely impossible [Read more...]

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Here in brief is a warning about how even a world class railway can deteriorate. The “ABCs of business decay” include: arrogance, bureaucracy, and complacency.” [Read more...]

Incredible but true. Bloomberg report — Feb 22, 2016 Mongolia is seeking a $1.3 billion loan from the Export-Import Bank of China to complete a railway connecting its [Read more...]

Dreams of a bold new Chinese financed silk corridor giveaway are behind the scenes taking execution shape. Lots of it will be a financed highway network growth. EVIDENCE?  [Read more...]

NORWEGIAN open-access rail freight operator Cargolink ceased operations on February 11, 2016 as the company’s board decided to file for insolvency. I have confirmed [Read more...]

RUSSIA: United Wagon Co has signed an agreement with fertilizer producer Uralkali to supply 400 hopper wagons from its Tikhvin factory. The Type 19-9870 cars will have an [Read more...]

Was the British Rail privatization effort ever successfully completed. Or just a juggling of the accounting books? What do you think? Here is an interesting review in part [Read more...]

Bravo! A gutsy but professionally focused opinion column points out why modernizing the vast but bureaucratic Indian Railways may be a hopeless task. It’s about [Read more...]

Something to reflect upon from a Bloomberg global news story on Oct 7, 2015 Two decades of promised growth and investment. Much of it wasted. Now Brazil is forced to compete [Read more...]