The suggestion that the State of Missouri invest $10MM to relieve congestion on the Union Pacific Kansas City to St. Louis line merits comment. Three other railroads, Norfolk Southern, Kansas City Southern, and Rock Island, connect those cities. Their idle…

Someone tried to set a trap here for rail passenger enthusiasts and failed.  The tone of the editorial, “Off Track” in the March 27, 2008 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is “you can’t have both.”  Fact of the matter is, both Amtrak and…

The Post Dispatch editorial opinion concerning Pete Rahn’s request for additional 10.6 million to extend sidings along a busy rail corridor misses a very big picture.  It is called infrastructure.  Something that is being touted half way across the world by all…

Once again Amtrak is in the spotlight; on how to gain ridership.  The delays due to the long freight and coal trains put a damper on usage as it just takes too long to get from St. Louis to Kansas…