A Tunnel Too Far
When the Channel Tunnel opened 10 years ago Friday, it was hailed as an engineering marvel, a new paradigm for the private financing of public- works projects and a way to integrate Britain into a...
View ArticleAmerica needs to focus on high speed rail
President Obama has repeatedly insisted that there is no reason why Europe or China, rather than the United States, should have the world’s fastest trains, and since coming to office he has committed...
View ArticleHow the Civil War was won on the railways
Among many other things, the Civil War marked the first significant use of the railroad as a military tool. Between the opening of the first European and American railroads in 1830 and the outbreak of...
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