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...]

If you cannot beat them, try to join them… …in order to help the poor nations achieve desperately needed energy supply. Yes, from environmentally harmful coal. [Read more...]

Technology smallness and it’s cheap cost will overwhelm the opposition “Resistance is futile” Railway trains too. From a Bloomberg report on Oct 8, 2015 It [Read more...]

Much of the world operates railroads that lack the necessary vertical clearances and the standard 1435mm heavy axle track gauge that allows for double stacking international [Read more...]

A Bloomberg commodities index that tracks returns from 22 raw materials has fallen 50 percent since a 2011 high Down BY HALF! Not by a crummy 3% to 5% . Or even Ten percent [Read more...]

Those who were at the keynote Railway Interchange 2015 address by retired Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill heard this leadership message. Mr O’Neill held the [Read more...]

From Alaska to Mongolia, and South Africa to Brazil, old strategic plans are being trashed. “It would take a brave soul to wade in with both feet into commodities,” says [Read more...]

siberiantimes.com/business/investment/news/n0160-plans-for-new-transport-route-unveiled-to-link-pacific-with-atlantic/ We may have missed this probable last great rail plan [Read more...]