Hanging in there…

These are difficult times! A pandemic is coursing around the world. We have an absolutely inept administration, which, instead of reassuring the public, fans the flames of near panic ever more. Then we have right-wing Republicans who think this is just an elaborate hoax, goaded along by so called “Evangelical Christians” of the Jerry Falwell […]

Mr. Gorbachev: Tear down this Wall!

A now famous line from then US President Reagan’s 1987 speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, West Germany. 30 years ago today, on the 9th of November 1989 the Berlin Wall did indeed come down and changed global politics. I grew up in West Germany and very much remember waking up the morning of […]

City Bus Concept Designs at InnoTrans 2018

The Innotrans Exhibition in Berlin, Germany has always been known as a big shindig for all things railroad. Steel wheel on steel rail and related items, that sort of thing. The last few times however, InnoTrans has included city buses. Apparently the only major requirement to participate is, that the buses have alternative propulsion. Obviously […]