Now arriving at Holland Glade Road Station…
Well, I have done it again! A little over a year ago Bachmann Trains announced an HO scale model of the Amtrak Next Generation Acela “Avelia” train set. Production of the train set was not certain, being dependent on the number of pre production orders. I need another train set like another hole in my […]
Another domino falls…
Full disclosure: this blog entry is for the really serious rail enthusiast, or perhaps for a seasoned economist, or maybe even useful as an object lesson during a business course at a university. If so, I would suggest scheduling it somewhere in freshman business 101! Add this to another text book case of running a […]
Franchising Follies & Failures
The birthplace of railroads has an identity crisis. Or perhaps more of a “political will” crisis. Great Britain’s railways seem to be rapidly approaching a day of reckoning and grudging acknowledgement of the fact, that the much ballyhooed privatization and franchising model of the British railway system is destined for failure. It “only” took […]