Train Tuesdays
Thegovmonitor.com reports:
Governor Bob McDonnell today announced that the Commonwealth and CSX Transportation have reached an agreement on key principles regarding the high speed rail stimulus grant awarded to Virginia earlier this year…
“…Virginia is the first state in the nation to achieve an agreement with a Class One railroad for spending the entire award of [...]
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Despite strong opposition from a variety of sources (the Piedmont Environmental Council, actor Robert Duvall, and Congressman Frank Wolf), the TrAIL powerline is currently under construction. The line was allowed to use federal eminent domain authority to bypass local and state oversight. The line is paralleling an existing 500kV line through Virginia.
I observed [...]
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Train Tuesdays
Vice President of the United States
VP Biden wrote an editorial entitled Why America Needs Trains:
In 1830, the first steam-engine locomotive, the Tom Thumb, graced America’s railways. Its first run was a rickety 13-mile trek from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills, Md., but it became much more than that. It marked the beginning of a new [...]
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