Tag Archives: Union Pacific

No Answers Yet in 737 MAX Crash/ Let’s Shut Down Amtrak

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Nikitas

Fox Business reports about the Ethiopian Airlines crash of March 10, 2019 that killed 157 people: Faulty sensors on a Boeing 737 Max jet that resulted in an Ethiopian Airlines crash earlier this year are reportedly thought to have been … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events (More than 1,500 previous editorials!) | Tagged Amtrak, BNSF, Boeing 737 MAX, Ethiopian Airlines, Eugene, European trains, high-speed rail, Portland, Seattle, Trump administration, Union Pacific | Leave a comment

Transcontinental RR: 150 Years!/ 2020 Dems are a Sad Bunch

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Nikitas

Wow! 150 years ago, on May 10, 1869, the “Golden Spike” was driven at Promontory, Utah, completing the transcontinental American railroad. Two separate lines – one coming east from California and the other going west from Omaha, Nebraska – were … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events (More than 1,500 previous editorials!) | Tagged Amy Kolbuchar, Bernie Sanders, Beto O'Rourke, BNSF, Cory Booker, CSX, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Norfolk Southern, Pocahontas, president Trump, promotory Utah, Southern Pacific, transcontinental railroad, Union Pacific | Leave a comment

How Environmentalists & Leftists Ruin US Railroads

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Nikitas

Nikitas3.com is a huge fan of American railroads. And by “railroads” I am referring to our freight railroads which comprise the biggest and most efficient railroad system anywhere in the world. Anyone who knows about railroads knows that this is … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events (More than 1,500 previous editorials!) | Tagged affirmative action, Amtrak, BNSF, Conrail, CSX, genset locomotives, Lac Megantic crash, Norfolk Southern, PTC, Staggers Act, Union Pacific, Willie Odom | Leave a comment

2017 was Fabulous!/ Did Antifa Derail Amtrak Train?

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Nikitas

2017 was the most memorable political year in the baby-boomer lifetime of Nikitas3.com (I was born in 1953). Every day of 2017 I woke up energized. But, hey, with the election of a true conservative reformer – and a rabble-rouser … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events (More than 1,500 previous editorials!) | Tagged Amtrak, antifa, ANWR, Melania Trump, Neil Gorsuch, net neutrality, Positive Train Control, president Trump, PTC, Union Pacific | Leave a comment

Liberals Fret about Failing Public Transit Systems

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Nikitas

Here is an excerpt from PJMedia: Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Hillary Clinton’s running mate in the 2016 election, said the public should be “worried” about the Washington, D.C. Metro (subway) heading into a death spiral without the proper funding and … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events (More than 1,500 previous editorials!) | Tagged Amtrak, BNSF, California high-speed rail, light rail. Los Angeles trolley, public transit, SEPTA, Trains magazine, Union Pacific | Leave a comment

Myths about US, European Passenger Trains Exposed

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Nikitas

(All numbers given in his commentary are accepted figures, reported numbers, rounded numbers, estimates based on facts, or averages of numbers found in research on the internet. They are chosen for as much accuracy as possible.) For decades we have … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events (More than 1,500 previous editorials!) | Tagged Amtrak, BNSF, CSX, European passenger trains, German ICE trains, Norfolk Southern, TGV, Thalys, Union Pacific | Leave a comment

Public Rail Transit is Overpriced, Inefficient

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Nikitas

A researcher at the conservative/libertarian Cato Institute named Randal O’Toole has done a lot of great work debunking the myths of American public transit. O’Toole explains over and over that rail-based public transit systems (commuter trains, subways, trolleys, Amtrak, etc.) … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events (More than 1,500 previous editorials!) | Tagged Amtrak, BNSF, California high-speed rail, New Mexico RailRunner, public rail transit, Union Pacific | Leave a comment

Private-Sector US Transportation System is World’s Best

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Nikitas

There is a magazine called TRAINS which covers modern American freight railroads, passenger trains, foreign railroads, locomotive technology, signaling systems, US railroad history etc., every possible subject. TRAINS covers private-sector American freight railroads well but is constantly banging the drum … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events (More than 1,500 previous editorials!) | Tagged Abo Canyon, Amtrak, BNSF, Colton Flyover, CSX, NorfolkSouthern, Talgo, Union Pacific | Leave a comment

310 MPH Passenger Train in Japan… So What?

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Nikitas

Here is a headline and a few paragraphs from telegraph.co.uk, the website of the Daily Telegraph in Britain, about a futuristic passenger train in Japan: Japan Tests 310 MPH Bullet Train – The new generation L0 Series trains, which employ … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events (More than 1,500 previous editorials!) | Tagged 310 MPH passenger train, Amtrak, BNSF, Bullet Train, California high-speed rail, CSX, Los Angeles to San Francisco, NorfolkSouthern, reason.com, Union Pacific, US airlines sell 780 million tickets | Leave a comment

Cars, Planes and Buses Serve Us Well – Passenger Trains Don’t

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Nikitas

What nation has by far the biggest and most efficient railroad network on the planet? We are trained to reflexively think that the answer certainly is Germany or Japan or even China. But the answer is the USA. Our freight … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events (More than 1,500 previous editorials!) | Tagged Amtrak, BNSF, concrete crossties, CSX, freight railroads, government regulation, high-speed passenger system, intermodal, New York Central, Norfolk Southern, ribbon rail, Staggers Act, Union Pacific | Leave a comment