Between 1920 and 2019, the average cost per tonne-km of US freight railways declined by 77%, while the amount of energy consumed per tonne-km dropped by 95%. During the same 100-year period, the ...
Longer trains have more cars, possibly a greater variety of car types and sizes, and more requirements for power distributed across the train in comparison with shorter manifest trains. Because of ...
The Biden administration wants to bring about a new age of train travel. But tension between Amtrak and the freight industry threaten to derail those ambitions. Even when everything goes right, Amtrak ...