Blog posts
March 24, 2015
Tomorrow Holly and I head off to Orlando to start the wind up to the ASLRRA 2015 Connections convention. This will be (I think) the fifteenth time I have attended the convention, and in that time a lot has
March 10, 2015
Ok folks, tighten your belts and hold on tight, this one is going to be a full on rant.This has to stop. What, you ask? People believing that if they stop their vehicle on a grade crossing that a magical bubble of protection will lower around them and keep them from harm.
February 22, 2015
As I write this, I am sitting in my office at the M&E wearing long johns and heavy socks, in addition to my usual attire. It is in the single digits outside, and the heater for my office trailer is doing what it can to get the temperature up to 65 degrees.
February 19, 2015
We all go to work when we are tired. We might need an extra cup of coffee or tea on those days (or a Red Bull, I suppose) but we can get our work done, albeit a bit more slowly or less efficiently.
February 02, 2015
Last week was a little different than the norm, as I got to participate in two widely different and important parts of our industry. In both cases the people involved were new to the rail industry, and each was trying to work their way into what would be their place of bus
January 14, 2015
So we are now into 2015, and I thought I would make a couple of resolutions, and lo and behold, I have already succeeded in keeping them for the first two weeks of the year! But seriously, here are a couple of things that may sound like the traditional resolution, but stra
December 29, 2014
The Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting and Railroad Day on Capitol Hill are two events in D.C.
December 29, 2014
Here we are, at the change of the year, and while I wouldn’t classify 2014 as a tough year by any measure, 2015 already has the makings for one that will tax (no pun intended) us a bit. In the year past we have changed leadership at the ASLRRA (and the new president is alr
December 15, 2014
I kind of like this time of year. I’m talking about the period from Thanksgiving to Christmas, roughly three weeks that really signal the end of the business year (truth be told, I’m also kind of partial to it because my birthday falls in it, but that’s beside the point).