Reconnect America Podcast & Blog

Interview: Captive Shippers and Their Fight for Reasonable and Reliable Rail Service (w/ Emily Regis)

Listen and subscribe on your favorite platform: Substack, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube. We recently released Episode Four of our main Reconnect America series. It explores in depth the story of the unique U.S. experiment in private... Read more

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Episode 4. Private Railroads for Public Purpose: Battles, Misadventures, and Extraordinary Measures

Listen and subscribe on your favorite platform: Substack, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube. Rail systems around the world are mostly owned and operated by the public. But the U.S. has only ever flirted... Read more

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Interview: U.S. Railroads' Endgame Moment (w/ Byron Porter)

Listen and subscribe on your favorite platform: Substack, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube. Wow, we interact with a lot of activists and advocates. What’s fascinating about this conversation is that amongst... Read more

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Interview: Why Railroad Workers Are Fighting the Proposed UP-NS Merger (w/ Ron Kaminkow)

Listen and subscribe on your favorite platform: Substack, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube. In the coming year or so, the Surface Transportation Board will determine whether to approve or block Union... Read more

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Interview: Taking on Wall Street—and its Railroads (w/ Former Congressman Peter DeFazio)

Listen and subscribe on your favorite platform: Substack, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube. I hope you'll take some time this Labor Day weekend to listen to my conversation with former Congressman... Read more

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Interview: A Labor Leader's Take on Railroad Mega-Merger, Cross-modal Solidarity, New Legislation, and More (w/ Greg Regan)

Greg Regan is president of the Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO. He has been an outspoken advocate in defense of workers and shippers over the last several years, as Class... Read more

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Interview: How to Fix the U.S. Railroad Problem—and the Country (w/ Phillip Longman)

Phillip Longman is Senior Editor at Washington Monthly and Policy Director at the Open Markets Institute. He has also written for publications like Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic, and the New... Read more

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Interview: History of U.S. Antimonopoly Law (w/ Basel Musharbash)

Basel Musharbash is principal attorney at Antimonopoly Counsel, where he practices antimonopoly and trade regulation law. By taking on corporate power, his work on behalf of farmers, small businesses, and workers... Read more

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Interview: Bill Hutchison and Ed D'Amato's Proposal to Fix U.S. Passenger Rail

Bill Hutchison and Ed D’Amato are co-founders and co-chairs of the Lakeshore Rail Alliance, a coalition of seven passenger rail advocacy organizations across six states in the Great Lakes Region, working... Read more

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Episode 5. Profitability at Any Cost: The Price We Paid to Rescue U.S. Railroads

Episode 4. Private Railroads for Public Purpose: Battles, Misadventures, and Extraordinary Measures

4 Key Federal Priorities

Managed Decline: When US Rail Fails to Compete

Reconnect America Podcast: Voices for Creative yet Common Sense Rail

Resilience for SE Washington Farmers and Shippers

Episode 3. Amtrak's Genesis and the Ongoing Struggle to Reclaim the Public Purpose of Passenger Rail (Part 2)

Episode 2. From Bloom to Bailout: A History of US Passenger Rail (Part 1)

White House Releases US Rail Action Plan

Episode 1. Reconnect America

Electrified Rail: A Common Sense Infrastructure Investment

Just Transition: Key Pillar of Rail in the Public Interest

Testimony to STB for Rail in the Public Interest

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